A lunch hook, in college slang from a century ago, meant “a hand”–as in, “I’m going to hook my finger through this doughnut hole.” This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Lunch Hook”
I bet you can guess in college slang from 100 years ago what a lunch hook is.
Lunch hook? I have no idea.
It’s your finger or your hand.
You’ve probably heard meat hooks used to mean your hands or your fist, right?
Okay, yeah.
So your lunch hook is your hand.
This is where you snag your lunch, right?
Put your finger through a donut hole or put it under the strap of a pail, right?
Yeah, that’s how college students eat, right?
Just go through the cafeteria line.
Well, 100 years ago, right?
When you might actually bring a pail or you’d have a string wrapped around the paper that wrapped your sandwich, right?
So you have your lunch hooked on your finger.
Lunch hook.
