An American dialectal expression for the hunger pains or stomach cramps that result from skipping meals — a humorous and slightly grim description of the discomfort of going without food. Used in rural Southern American speech to describe the physical consequences of poverty or fasting.
After skipping lunch and dinner, she had a full case of miss-meal colic by nightfall.
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(US, dialect) weight loss via missing meals.
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Regional slang from around the English-speaking world — British, Australian, Irish, Caribbean, Nigerian, Filipino, AAVE, and the hyphenated-English dialects that make the internet sound local.
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