ALL meanings of eats
eat
E e - verb with object eats to take into the mouth and swallow for nourishment; chew and swallow (food). 1
- verb with object eats to consume by or as if by devouring gradually; wear away; corrode: The patient was eaten by disease and pain. 1
- verb with object eats to make (a hole, passage, etc.), as by gnawing or corrosion. 1
- verb with object eats to ravage or devastate: a forest eaten by fire. 1
- verb with object eats to use up, especially wastefully; consume (often followed by up): Unexpected expenses have been eating up their savings. 1
- verb with object eats to absorb or pay for: The builder had to eat the cost of the repairs. 1
- verb with object eats Slang: Vulgar. to perform cunnilingus or fellatio on. 1
- verb without object eats to consume food; take a meal: We'll eat at six o'clock. 1
- verb without object eats to make a way, as by gnawing or corrosion: Acid ate through the linoleum. 1
- noun eats eats, Informal. food. 1
- idioms eats be eating someone, Informal. to worry, annoy, or bother: Something seems to be eating him—he's been wearing a frown all day. 1
- idioms eats eat crow. crow1 (def 7). 1
- idioms eats eat high off the hog. hog (def 16). 1
- idioms eats eat humble pie. humble pie (def 3). 1
- idioms eats eat in, to eat or dine at home. 1
- idioms eats eat one's heart out. heart (def 26). 1
- idioms eats eat one's terms. term (def 17). 1
- idioms eats eat one's words. word (def 16). 1
- idioms eats eat out of one's hand. hand (def 49). 1
- idioms eats eat someone out of house and home, to eat so much as to strain someone's resources of food or money: A group of hungry teenagers can eat you out of house and home. 1
- idioms eats eat someone's lunch, Slang. to thoroughly defeat, outdo, injure, etc. 1
- idioms eats eat the wind out of, Nautical. to blanket (a sailing vessel sailing close-hauled) by sailing close on the weather side of. 1
- noun eats Third-person singular simple present indicative form of eat. 1
- noun plural eats articles of food; provisions 0
- noun plural eats things to eat; food; meals 0