eat dirt

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English

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Verb

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eat dirt (third-person singular simple present eats dirt, present participle eating dirt, simple past ate dirt, past participle eaten dirt)

  1. (idiomatic) To submit in a meanly humble manner to insults; to eat humble pie.

Interjection

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eat dirt

  1. (euphemistic) Synonym of eat shit

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for eat dirt”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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