Serving meaning : (personal) To provide a service (or, by extension, a product, especially food or drink). To treat (someone) in a given manner. To be suitor to; to be the lover of. To be effective. To deliver a document. To lead off with the first delivery over the net in tennis, volleyball, ping pong, badminton etc. To copulate with (of male animals); to cover. To be in military service. To work, to operate (a weapon). To work through (a given period of time in prison, a sentence). To wind spun yarn etc. tightly around (a rope or cable, etc.) so as to protect it from chafing or from the weather. To perform (a public obligation). To provide crack cocaine (to), usually by selling, dealing, or distributing. The action of the verb to serve. A portion (especially, of a meal) served to someone. A layer added to the outside of an electrical cable to protect it. That or who serves or serve.