"food fight" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: food fights [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} food fight (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. Categories (topical): Food and drink Translations (disorderly outbreak in which food is thrown for amusement): kajacsata (Hungarian), matkrig [neuter] (Swedish)

Inflected forms

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