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feeding frenzy
What does feeding frenzy mean?
The Friday tradition on the 1980s Salomon Brothers mortgage desk where traders ordered absurd quantities of food — hundreds of dollars of Mexican, pizza, deli — and ate themselves comatose at their turrets. Documented in Liar's Poker as a status display dressed up as lunch: the bigger the order, the bigger the swinging dick.
"Friday on the desk meant feeding frenzy — four hundred bucks of burritos and nobody picked up a phone for an hour."
Origin
Salomon Brothers mortgage desk ritual described in Michael Lewis's Liar's Poker (1989).
Frequently asked questions
What was the Feeding Frenzy?
It was the Salomon bond desk's grotesque Friday food ritual.
How do you use Feeding Frenzy in a sentence?
"Friday afternoon meant the trading floor's infamous Feeding Frenzy."
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