Entry · catalog no. 7411
munch
/ /mʌntʃ/ /MUNCH
noun · Bronx, New York City · 2020s
✓ Verified
1.
An eater — somebody eager to go down on you — and by extension somebody sprung: obsessed, easy to use, doing the most for a person who is not thinking about them. The insult is the imbalance.
“You thought I was feeling you? You a munch.”
Origin & Attribution
New York slang — the eater family of words — in circulation in the Bronx before Ice Spice built "Munch (Feelin' U)" (August 2022) around it and sent it national. She defined it herself for RapCaviar that September: "a munch is basically just a eater." Often reported as her invention; she was quoting her borough.
2022
"Munch (Feelin' U)" released August 10
2022
Ice Spice defines the term for RapCaviar (September)
2023
National usage via TikTok and Twitter
Region of origin
West
Midwest
N.East
South
The Northeast
Bronx, New York City · 2020s
Spoken by
Bronx and NYC drill scene; then everywhere
$MUNCHThe Record · cultural traction
▲ Fading4 yrs
ahead of the mainstream
85/100
peak cultural energy
Introduced to English by the culture — logged here before the mainstream caught on.
Cultural usage — the recordMainstream search interest
First used
2022
in the culture
Cultural energy indexed from documented usage, search interest, and citation frequency. The recorded date is the archive’s permanent point of record.
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The Bronx, NY
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Philadelphia, PA
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Citations & Sources
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Ice Spice, "Munch (Feelin' U)"
2022
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+ Cite a sourceRapCaviar interview, Ice Spice defining munch
2022
See also