disco rice

English

Etymology

From their rice-like appearance and wiggling motions, as if dancing.

Noun

disco rice (uncountable)

  1. (US, slang) Maggots.
    • 2004 July 31, Ian Urbina, “Disco Rice, and Other Trash Talk; Picking Up the Garbage Means Picking Up the Lingo”, in The New York Times‎[1], archived from the original on 9 November 2021:
      Some terms have crossed over into pop culture. Art exhibits around the country now feature mongo, New York sanitation slang for salvaged garbage. Other expressions are less than enticing. Disco rice refers to maggots. Urban whitefish are used condoms.

Usage notes

  • This term is observed to be in use among morticians.
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