eat up
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eat up (third-person singular simple present eats up, present participle eating up, simple past ate up, past participle eaten up)
- (transitive, intransitive) To consume completely.
- He was so hungry that he ate up everything on his plate.
- Dinner is served. Eat up!
- (transitive, figurative) To subtract, use up.
- 1934, Frank Richards, The Magnet: The Mystery of the Vaults:
- The powerful car ate up the miles.
- His behavior has eaten up all the goodwill we felt towards him.
- (transitive, figurative, informal) To accept or believe entirely, immediately, and without questioning.
- She ate up everything that her image consultant said.
- (transitive, US, informal) To find something to be very cute (typically only used for children or pets).
- You're so cute, I could just eat you up!
- (transitive, slang) To be very good at; to succeed at; to smash. (Compare eat and leave no crumbs.)
- 2023 July 14, Anwaya Mane, ““THEY ATE THAT UP”: BTS’ Jungkook’s fans lavish praise on Bangtan’s maknae and Han So-hee’s crackling chemistry in SEVEN MV”, in Sportskeeda[1]:
- One fan shared a snippet from the music video wherein Jungkook and Han So-hee are drowning in water. Despite the catastrophic situation, the lovers are squabbling with each other. The fan commented: “The laundromat cause they ate that up”.
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consume completely
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accept or believe entirely
find to be cute
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