food n.
1. (US black) gossip.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Jive and Sl. |
2. (US gang/gay) a victim, prey; a sex object.
| Queens’ Vernacular 84: food generic for men as sex objects. | |
 | N.Y. Press 30 Oct.–5 Nov. 10/4: Bloods can be deadly. [...] ‘You cross me, you’re food,’ one told me. ‘Food means you’re eaten. Dead.’. |
3. (UK black/drugs) a drug, e.g. cannabis.
| www.grimepedia.co.u 🌐 Peng Food is a CD released by the artist Frisco, but it is also a larger showcase for the grime label Alwayz Recordings. | |
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Mirror Online 1 Sept. 🌐 Food — the code word for drugs. Crack and heroin referred to as ‘hard food’. | |
| ‘Hashtag’ 🎵 Everyday man moves food / I swear down man come like some waiter. | |
| What They Was 22: You have to take revenge [...] if you can’t get any of your p’s or your food back . |
In compounds
(UK black/drugs) narcotics.
| What They Was 116: Little Man got her to smoke the hard food and once she was hooked, he pimped her out to the mandem. |
SE in slang uses
In compounds
a group of prisoners who cook their own food.
| Guardian G2 11 Feb. 4: On a spur, or a landing, food boats were formed, comprising three or four associates who pooled their prison wages and purchased meat and vegetables. | |
| A Few Kind Words and a Loaded Gun 471: The premier food-boat on Red Spur was known as ‘The Bears’, due to its members’ huge size and the gargantuan meals they ate. |
(US black) the stomach.
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Sydney Sportsman (Surry Hills, NSW) 15 June 5/2: [H]e had got a couple of good ones home on Donoghue’s food box. | |
| ‘Ebonics’ 🎵 Jealous is jelly, your food box is your belly. |
the jaw.
| B.E.F. Times 22 Jan. (2006) 291/1: A tin lid, which we fasten on our top-knobs with a strap under the food-grinder. |
(Aus.) a tramp.
| Popular Dict. Aus. Sl. | |
| Aus. Lang. |
In phrases
see under beast n.