feed one’s face v.
1. to eat, esp. to stuff oneself with food; thus face-feeding n., over-eating; face-feeder n., an (over-)eater.
![]() | Star-Gaz. (Elmira, NY) 15 May 4/3: Yale College Slang [...] [A]fter feeding my face I blew down to Mory’s with a couple of heelers. | |
![]() | Princeton Stories 39: In freshman year they say, ‘Are you ready to feed your face?’. | |
![]() | You Can Search Me 61: ‘Will you feed the face, Dodey?’ ‘You betcha sweet!’ Dodie replied. | |
![]() | Sun. Times (Perth) 7 June 4/7: O, grind the ten commandments out, / What time they feed a face. | |
![]() | Bulletin (Sydney) 5 Aug. 47/1: ‘I was coming out of a Dago joint picking me teeth, when Big Thompson comes erlong an’ says, ‘Yer doing it well,’ says he. ‘Well,’ says I, ‘a man must feed ’is face sometimes.’. | |
![]() | Sun. Times (Perth) 10 Dec. 95/2: An ornate prayer’s scarcely part of the game when the lusty bluenose fills his face. | |
![]() | Truth (Wellington) 13 Oct. 1/7: Our Plute Parliamentarians [...] never tired of feeding their faces in Bellamy’s. | |
![]() | Main Stem 38: We asked our wobbly friend to feed his face with us. | |
![]() | Banjo 296: Ise got enough a them francs to blow fifty face-feeders with the few dollars I done change. | |
![]() | Hobo’s Hornbook 159: Nothing in sight but sand and space; / No chance for a bo to feed his face. | ‘Gila Monster Route’ in|
![]() | Law O’ The Lariat 62: When yu boys have fed yore faces yu can start for home. | |
![]() | Let Me Do the Talking 86: You just want money to feed your face and pay for your women. All you care about is Gabriel. | |
![]() | Shiralee 131: Come on, mate, and feed your face. | |
![]() | Big Rumble 100: He’ll feed his face and go see the dames. | |
![]() | Hy Lit’s Unbelievable Dict. of Hip Words 9: Buttermilk-bottom had best cut down on his face feeding. | |
![]() | Spend, Spend, Spend Scene 4: My dad always fed his face off the mantelpiece. He said it was because he never knew where the chairs were. | |
![]() | After Hours I didn’t really stuff my face. I can’t enjoy a good scoff with a whole lot of fancy people around: . | |
![]() | Muvver Tongue 71: They’d been feeding their faces so much they could hardly move. | |
![]() | Getting the Best Out of Your Juicer 2: Just cut into strips and feed the juicer, then feed your face. | |
![]() | A Silent Struggle 111: All you ever do around here is feed your face, get drunk, and go to sleep. | |
![]() | Finders Keepers (2016) 147: He’d love to get some payback from the fat son of a bitch now feeding his face with fancy food. |
2. to feed someone else.
![]() | (con. early 1930s) Harlem Glory (1990) 46: To keep always in the white folks grace / [...] / You must know how to feed they face. |
3. to indulge in oral intercourse.
![]() | Jailhouse Jargon and Street Sl. [unpub. ms.]. | |
![]() | 🎵 on ...in Time [album] You sit on my face, I dine at your Y / Blow job, gob job, sixty-eight / You feed your face and eat my meat / My fist into your Dead End Street. | ‘Zeitgest’