food fight

noun

: a playful fight in which people throw food at each other

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Glenn Hegar might be about to start a food fight, or at least the political equivalent of one. John C. Moritz, Austin American Statesman, 30 July 2025 Naturally, the two teens hate each other, leading to a school bake-sale food fight that’s pure Disney Channel. David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 5 Aug. 2025 And that brings us back to the aforementioned possibility of a food fight. John C. Moritz, Austin American Statesman, 30 July 2025 The film opens with a massive food fight in Spain, the annual La Tomatina festival in which a whole town throws tomatoes at each other. Caryn James, HollywoodReporter, 27 June 2025 President Trump's joint address to Congress devolved, within minutes, into the nastiest partisan food fight in the history of this annual tradition. Zachary Basu, Axios, 5 Mar. 2025 In the week leading up to Donald Trump’s inauguration, a brief but sloppy food fight broke out between the Trump team and the outgoing Biden administration over who deserves credit for finalizing a cease-fire deal in the Gaza Strip. Noah Rothman, National Review, 24 Jan. 2025 Biden, meanwhile, largely stayed out of the food fight in Congress. Alexander Bolton, The Hill, 24 Dec. 2024 So, to waste time over a nonsensical intramural food fight is a joke. ABC News, 29 Dec. 2024

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“Food fight.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/food%20fight. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.

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