Meanings
noundisco rice (uncountable)
- USslanguncountableMaggots.
Some terms have crossed over into pop culture. Art exhibits around the country now feature mongo, New York sanitation slang for salvaged garbage. Other expressions are less than enticing. Disco rice refers to maggots. Urban whitefish are used condoms.
2004 July 31, Ian Urbina, “Disco Rice, and Other Trash Talk; Picking Up the Garbage Means Picking Up the Lingo”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 09 Nov 2021
Origin
From their rice-like appearance and wiggling motions, as if dancing.
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APA
disco rice. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/disco%20rice
MLA
“disco rice.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/disco%20rice. Accessed November 4, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “disco rice,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/disco%20rice.
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