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(slang) Hunger or cravings for food. quotations
"At my age, I'm lucky to get the hungries at all," he answered
1993, Henry St. Clair Whitehead, Robert Ervin Howard, To sleep, perchance to dream ... nightmare: thirty terrifying tales
You have just been attacked by the hungries!
1990, Mary Joan Oexmann, The Heart Factor Food Plan