Definition of "eat" in İngilizce

verb

1. To ingest; to be ingested.

2. To use up.

3. (transitive, informal) To cause (someone) to worry.

   • What's eating you?

4. (transitive, business) To take the loss in a transaction.

   • I have to have him in court tomorrow, if he doesn't show up, I forfeit the bond and I have to eat the $300,000.

5. (transitive, slang) To be injured or killed by (something such as a firearm or its projectile), especially in the mouth.

   • I risk my whole future, the hatred of the cops and Eddie Mars' gang. I dodge bullets and eat saps.
   • Friends are only necessary in the ghastly country, where you have to have them, along with rubber boots and a barometer and secateurs, to put off bucolic idiocy, a wet brain, or eating the 12-bore.

6. (ambitransitive) To corrode or erode.

   • The acid rain ate away the statue.  The strong acid eats through the metal.

7. (transitive, slang) To perform oral sex (on a person or body part).

   • Eat me!
   • I ate his ass.
   • Yeah, eat that dick / eat that pussy.

8. (stative, slang) To be very good; to rule, to slay.

   • You ate that performance!
   • This song eats!

9. (transitive, slang) To annex.

noun

1. (colloquial) Something to be eaten; a meal; a food item.