eater
食客,吃货,食者,食人者
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Definitions
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ate [eyt; especially British et] /eɪt; especially British ɛt/ or eat [et, eet]; /ɛt, it/; eat·en or eat [et, eet]; /ɛt, it/; eat·ing.
- : to take into the mouth and swallow for nourishment; chew and swallow.
- : to consume by or as if by devouring gradually; wear away; corrode: The patient was eaten by disease and pain.
- : to make, as by gnawing or corrosion.
- : to ravage or devastate: a forest eaten by fire.
- : to use up, especially wastefully; consume: Unexpected expenses have been eating up their savings.
- : to absorb or pay for: The builder had to eat the cost of the repairs.
- : Slang: Vulgar. to perform cunnilingus or fellatio on.
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ate [eyt; especially British et] /eɪt; especially British ɛt/ or eat [et, eet]; /ɛt, it/; eat·en or eat [et, eet]; /ɛt, it/; eat·ing.
- : to consume food; take a meal: We'll eat at six o'clock.
- : to make a way, as by gnawing or corrosion: Acid ate through the linoleum.
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- : eats, Informal. food.
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- : eat away / into to destroy gradually, as by erosion: For eons, the pounding waves ate away at the shoreline.
- : eat out, to have a meal at a restaurant rather than at home.
- : eat up, to consume wholly.to show enthusiasm for; take pleasure in: The audience ate up everything he said.to believe without question.
Phrases
- eat and run
- eat away at
- eat crow
- eat high off the hog
- eat in
- eat like a bird
- eat one's cake and have it, too
- eat one's hat
- eat one's heart out
- eat one's words
- eat out
- eat out of someone's hand
- eat shit
- eat someone alive
- eat someone out
- eat someone out of house and home
- eat someone's ass out
- eat someone's lunch
- eat someone up
- eat up
- dog eat dog
- proof of the pudding is in the eating
- what's eating you
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
As part of the update, users will now be able to see the ratings of nearby restaurants, which locales they’ve ordered from, and top eats—all of which will be marked with icons—on a map.
But two things are clear in this tail-eater of a case: First, there seems to be plenty of guilt but hardly a criminal in sight.
When it comes to food, are you an adventurous, nose-to-tail kind of eater?
It is messy enough to be fork-food for all but the most dexterous eater.
The Daily Beast found out with the help of nationally ranked competitive eater Eric ‘Badlands’ Booker.
The books on that list are reliably brilliant, and The Pumpkin Eater is no exception.
In the old days every great man kept a toad-eater; sometimes his functions were highly paid—Wolff's are, I fancy.
We here saw an opium-eater, lying stretched out upon a mat on the floor.
The little insect-eater chittered in alarm and dashed off to safety across the highway.
Our friend Robert the Eater was one of the communiers sent to Paris three years ago to secure our charter.
He was far from a great eater, and I never noticed him drink anything at dinner but claret, which is not an intoxicating beverage.