food

noun

1. (uncountable, usually)Any solid substance that can be consumed by living organisms, especially by eating, in order to sustain life.

   “The innkeeper brought them food and drink.”

   ““[…] the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people do send to other people that they don't know at all well. You know. The kind that have mottoes like Here's rattling good luck and roaring good cheer, / With lashings of food and great hogsheads of beer. […]””

   “Mostly, the microbiome is beneficial. It helps with digestion and enables people to extract a lot more calories from their food than would otherwise be possible. Research over the past few years, however, has implicated it in diseases from atherosclerosis to asthma to autism.”

2. (countable, usually)A foodstuff, a type of food.

   “Variation and changes in the trans fatty acid content of different foods, especially in processed foods, further complicate such estimates.”

3. (figuratively, uncountable, usually)Anything that nourishes or sustains.

   “The man's inspiring speech gave us food for thought.”

   “Mozart and Bach are food for my soul.”

   “This may prove food to my displeasure.”

   “In this moment there is life and food / For future years.”

4. (Multicultural-London-English, uncountable, usually)Any illegal substance or illegal substances, drugs.

   “What kind of things that you have. When I find out don't expect me to stop. I'll come for the P's that you stack. And come for the food that you blot.”

   “I'm so London, I'm so south / Food in the ends like there ain't no drought / Flipz don't talk like he's got no mouth”

   “[Verse 2:Kano]:If you've been shotting in the manor from way back when and you ain't on a kilo ting, I don't wanna hear about cunch and food and tings, man don't do those tings.”