Warning about new slang word that means your partner is cheating

Aussies have been warned to look out for a new dating term that signals their partner is being unfaithful.

In a bizarre new trend sweeping online forums and apps, cheaters have taken to calling their affair partners ‘coleslaw’ because they are a ‘side dish’.

While most people are familiar with the terms ‘ghosting’ and ‘love bombing’, the little-known new term has left many in the dark.

Women have started to notice their partners inexplicably bring up coleslaw in conversations over the past several months – with many now realising the double-meaning.

Cheaters typically refer to their spouses or ‘main’ partners as foods that are considered main dishes, like eye fillets. 

Australians have been warned to look out for a new dating term that means your partner is being unfaithful: flirt coleslaw 

The term was seemingly first used when an American TikTok influencer posted a video admonishing women who go after taken men. 

‘Some people are happy to be a side piece… okay, coleslaw,’ the video was captioned. 

This isn’t the first time food has been used as an innuendo.

For example, ‘breadcrumbing’ is a dating approach taken by those with no intention of being tied down.

Taking its name from the classic tale of Hansel and Gretel, breadcrumbing involves leading someone on with a trail of flirtatious messages but never following through.

Some of the worst offenders might not even meet the recipient of their teasing texts.

Dating experts in the US also previously uncovered the term ‘foodie call’ – similar to common phrase and Americanism ‘booty call’ – where a person sets up a date with someone they are not romantically interested in to be wined and dined.