hard food

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Noun

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hard food (uncountable)

  1. (Caribbean, Guyana, Jamaica) Starchy staple fruits and vegetables.
    Hyponyms: ground food, ground provisions
    • 2012, Claudette Beckford-Brady, Sweet Home, Jamaica, page 382:
      Hard food, such as yams, coco and dasheen, came from Country, and sometimes meat too.