Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. (Aus./S.Afr.) food, a meal.

1970		informant in DSAE.
1977		C. Hope Ducktails in Gray Theatre Two (1981) 51: Hey, lekker graze. (Wolfs down several more sandwiches).
1982		P. Slabolepszy Sat. Night at the Palace (1985) 14: Hey, Forsie, gooi me some start we get some graze here.
1986		P. Slabolepszy ‘Boo to the Moon’ in Mooi Street (1994) 113: Didn’t we bring some graze along?
1990		P. Hotz Muzukuru 179: Graze was brought to me – lekker graze – fish and macaro.
1996		(con. 1964-65) B. Thorpe Sex and Thugs and Rock ’n’ Roll 5: I wandered in for a graze and ate the biggest and best mixed grill I’d had in my life.
2003		‘SA English’ on Joburg.org.za 🌐 Graze – Grazing usually implies the eating habits of herbivores, but in South Africa it can also be used in reference to people and food, as in: ‘Let’s grab some graze before we go out.’.

2. attrib. use of sense 1.

2005

A. Lovejoy Acid Alex 105: Graze politics was similar to Worcester, although later I discovered something disgusting [...] about pudding days.