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   eat

   /iːt/

   verb

   • 1. put (food) into the mouth and chew and swallow it: "he was eating a hot dog"
   • ▪ have (a meal): "we ate dinner in a noisy cafe" Similar have a mealpartake of foodtake foodconsume foodfeedbreakfastlunchdinehave breakfasthave lunchhave dinnerhave supperfeastbanquetinformal:snackgrazenoshdated:supbreak bread
   • ▪ bother; annoy: informal "she knew what was eating him"
   • ▪ absorb (financial loss or cost): informal US "if we had to, we could probably eat the cost"
   • 2. perform fellatio or cunnilingus on (someone). vulgar slang US

   noun

   • 1. light food or snacks: informal "these make great party eats"

   Word Origin Old Englishetan, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch eten and German essen, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin edere and Greek edein.

   Scrabble Points: 3

   • E

     1

   • A

     1

   • T

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