Meanings
plural mukbangs · alternative meokbang · alternative muckbang
- countableuncountablesocial mediaAn online video broadcast in which a person eats.
I eat the pussy like a mukbang, let my nuts hang
2022, “Estaciones”, performed by Action Bronson ft. Hologram3 more examples
After all there's a huge market in South Korea for mukbangs. That's where someone is streaming as they eat. […] In any case there seem to be no particular types that are successful at streaming a mukbang since there are pretty young girls and heavy guys that seem to get a lot of viewers.
2016 January 6, shawn, “Re: AT&T U-Verse Shysters”, in rec.arts.tv (Usenet)I also get the sense, though, that some of those who, for whatever reason, often end up eating alone are tuning in for a dose of mukbang at mealtimes to get some virtual company (see the “Social Dining” chapter).
2017, Charles Spence, Gastrophysics: The New Science of Eating, Penguin, →ISBN, page 57In each group of comments, the intersectionality of Kinoshita's identity markers is compounded as she is singled out as a mukbang eater, a female mukbang eater, a slim female mukbang eater, and finally a slim Asian female mukbang eater, […]
2018, Crystal Abidin, Internet Celebrity: Understanding Fame Online, Emerald Group Publishing, →ISBN, page 26Synonyms: social eating
present singular third person mukbangs · participle present mukbanging · participle past mukbanged · past mukbanged · alternative meokbang · alternative muckbang
- transitivesocial mediaTo eat (food) as part of a mukbang performance.
Synonyms & antonyms
nounAn online video broadcast in which a person eats.
Origin
- Korean먹방
- Englishmukbang
Borrowed from Korean 먹방 (meokbang, literally “eating broadcast”).
More words from Korean
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Chinese Cantonese 食播
- 食播 (sik⁶ bo³)online video broadcast
Chinese Mandarin 吃播
- 吃播 (chībō)online video broadcast
Indonesian mokbang, mukbang
- mokbangonline video broadcast
- mukbangonline video broadcast
Japanese モッパン
- モッパン (moppan)online video broadcast
Korean 먹방
- 먹방 (meokbang)online video broadcast
Polish mukbang
- mukbangonline video broadcast
Portuguese mukbang
- mukbangonline video broadcast
Russian мокпа́н, мукба́нг
- мокпа́н (mokpán)online video broadcast
- мукба́нг (mukbáng)online video broadcast
Spanish mukbang, meokbang
- mukbangonline video broadcast
- meokbangonline video broadcast
Turkish yemek yayını
- yemek yayınıonline video broadcast
Cite this entry
mukbang. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mukbang
“mukbang.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mukbang. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “mukbang,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mukbang.
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