as in natural food
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a piece of food that is meant to be picked up with the fingers and eaten
Waiters offered the guests finger food during the cocktail hour.
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Recent Examples of finger food
Moonlight offers a creative menu of mixed drinks such as the Moonshadow (featuring bourbon, rum, coffee, and a splash of bitters) and the Dreamweaver (whiskey, vermouth, coffee liqueur, and grapefruit bitters) as well as luxury finger foods such as caviar bumps and steak tartare rolls.
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Keyaira Boone, Travel + Leisure, 4 Feb. 2025
The biggest day of the year for football — and finger food — fanatics is almost finally here.
—Kelsey Fredricks, People.com, 21 Jan. 2025
Upgrade the atmosphere by having finger foods and cocktails on hand for the holiday, like pretzel and cheese broomsticks with a bowl of Frankenpunch.
—Lisa Stardust, refinery29.com, 28 Oct. 2024
Baltimore is getting a new Japanese restaurant this Spring — Kannon, which will specialize in such familiar finger foods as sushi and sashimi.
—Mary Carole McCauley, Baltimore Sun, 3 Jan. 2025
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Keyaira Boone, Travel + Leisure, 4 Feb. 2025
The biggest day of the year for football — and finger food — fanatics is almost finally here.
—Kelsey Fredricks, People.com, 21 Jan. 2025
Upgrade the atmosphere by having finger foods and cocktails on hand for the holiday, like pretzel and cheese broomsticks with a bowl of Frankenpunch.
—Lisa Stardust, refinery29.com, 28 Oct. 2024
Baltimore is getting a new Japanese restaurant this Spring — Kannon, which will specialize in such familiar finger foods as sushi and sashimi.
—Mary Carole McCauley, Baltimore Sun, 3 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for finger food
Noun
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Some companies are working on creating natural food colorings from compounds found in plants like beetroot or spirulina, a blue-green algae.—
Allison Aubrey,
NPR,
18 Jan. 2025
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It is primarily grown for its vibrant reddish-orange seeds, which are used as a natural food coloring in various products.2 Traditionally, annatto is used to prevent and treat heartburn, chest pain, fevers, and diarrhea.—
Devineé Lingo, M.S.,
Health,
21 Dec. 2024
Noun
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Centrally located in the GA section of Coachella both weekends, the activation will allow festival attendees to lounge while enjoying a meal.—
Thania Garcia,
Variety,
10 Apr. 2025
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In addition, casein is known to promote satiety, thus helping to stave off nighttime hunger and reduce the urge to snack between meals.—
Veronica Cristino,
Vogue,
9 Apr. 2025
Noun
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And rightly so—this deceptively simple cocktail is a masterclass in balance.—
Emily Price,
Forbes.com,
3 Apr. 2025
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The addition of Peacock Alley, the brand’s signature bar and meeting place, and the debut of Hard Shake, a lounge experience where craft cocktails are enjoyed with long views and direct sightlines down the Las Vegas Strip, mark the completion of another major phase of a property-wide redesign.—
Ryan Slattery,
Travel + Leisure,
3 Apr. 2025
Noun
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An ounce of salmon jerky packs 14 grams of protein, while the same serving of beef jerky contains 10 grams.—
Jillian Kubala,
Health,
8 Apr. 2025
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Be mindful that a serving of avocado is about one-third of a medium avocado or 50 grams.—
Ann Pietrangelo,
Verywell Health,
7 Apr. 2025
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How long those plates can keep spinning is unclear, especially as tariffs start nudging up costs for American consumers.—
Anne Marie Drummond Lee,
CBS News,
11 Apr. 2025
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Baty ended the day with an OPS of .259 in 27 plate appearances that included him looking at a borderline called third strike after committing his critical error in the field.—
Larry Fleisher,
Forbes.com,
10 Apr. 2025
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“Finger food.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/finger%20food. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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