Definitions for eats

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eats eat

Spelling: [eet]

IPA: /it/

Eats is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 4 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 4 points.

You can make 44 anagrams from letters in eats (aest).

Definitions for eats

noun

1. eats, Informal. food.

Idioms

1. be eating someone, Informal. to worry, annoy, or bother:
2. eat crow. crow1 (def 7).
3. eat high off the hog. hog (def 16).
4. eat humble pie. humble pie (def 3).
5. eat in, to eat or dine at home.
6. eat one's heart out. heart (def 26).
7. eat one's terms. term (def 17).
8. eat one's words. word (def 16).
9. eat out of one's hand. hand (def 49).
10. eat someone out of house and home, to eat so much as to strain someone's resources of food or money:
11. eat someone's lunch, Slang. to thoroughly defeat, outdo, injure, etc.
12. eat the wind out of, Nautical. to blanket (a sailing vessel sailing close-hauled) by sailing close on the weather side of.

Verb phrases

1. eat away/into, to destroy gradually, as by erosion:
2. eat out, to have a meal at a restaurant rather than at home.
3. eat up, to consume wholly. to show enthusiasm for; take pleasure in: to believe without question.

verb (used with object)

1. to take into the mouth and swallow for nourishment; chew and swallow (food).
2. to consume by or as if by devouring gradually; wear away; corrode:
3. to make (a hole, passage, etc.), as by gnawing or corrosion.
4. to ravage or devastate:
5. to use up, especially wastefully; consume (often followed by up):
6. to absorb or pay for:
7. Slang: Vulgar. to perform cunnilingus or fellatio on.

verb (used without object)

1. to consume food; take a meal:
2. to make a way, as by gnawing or corrosion:

Origin of eats

before 900; Middle English eten, Old English etan; cognate with German essen, Gothic itan, Latin edere

Examples for eats

And this time, the guy who ‘eats too much, is lazy, and loves to play music’ is taking his fight to the machines.

[But] it all eats away at whatever is at the core of…your own humanity.

Giuliana has the thinnest body, but she eats, she really eats, so what the hell are you going to yell at her about?

I would give you food; but he who eats with a Huron should become his friend.

The average American eats 48 pints (or nearly 50,000 calories worth) of the stuff each year—the most in the world.

The mad joy of putting country behind you eats all other interests.

At length, he is persuaded--he blesses him, and eats the venison.

It is the soul of man that is important, not where he lives or what he eats.

Changes like this pose a huge threat to the adult entertainment industry—an industry that eats up a ton of bandwidth.

He eats green fruit and raw game; that is what I should like to do, too.