food fight

noun

A typically spontaneous and disorderly outbreak in which food is thrown for amusement, especially across a cafeteria room, as a form of chaotic collective behavior.

“I got spaghetti sauce all over me during a food fight at lunch today.”

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Meanings

nounfood fight (plural food fights)

plural food fights

  1. A typically spontaneous and disorderly outbreak in which food is thrown for amusement, especially across a cafeteria room, as a form of chaotic collective behavior.

    I got spaghetti sauce all over me during a food fight at lunch today.

    1 more example

    “This is going to schism Maga terribly online,” Kirk said. “You're going to see—I don't want to say a Maga civil war, but it's going to be a Maga online food fight that is going to be very hard to navigate.”

    2025 June 14, Guy Chazan, quoting Charlie Kirk, “Trump’s anti-war pledge tested amid Maga base fear of fresh conflict”, in FT Weekend, London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 4

Translations

German Essensschlacht
  • Essensschlachtdisorderly outbreak in which food is thrown for amusement
Hungarian kajacsata
  • kajacsatadisorderly outbreak in which food is thrown for amusement
Swedish matkrig
  • matkrigdisorderly outbreak in which food is thrown for amusement
Cite this entry
APA

food fight. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/food%20fight

MLA

“food fight.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/food%20fight. Accessed November 5, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “food fight,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/food%20fight.

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