Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

eat someone for breakfast

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.46 in modern English

Syllables: eat -some-one -for break-fast
IPA

36

Scrabble Score

22

Letters

5

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To beat easily; to trounce.

Slang

Example Sentences

"Worried? Nah, I eat punks like you for breakfast."
"If you slip up, they're going to eat you for breakfast."
"A low-quality, fuel-thirsty small car that improved a bit during its last three years on the market. 1999 and earlier models eat engine head gaskets for breakfast and wallets for lunch."
"This guy's a lunatic, a psycho. He will eat you for breakfast. He won't even notice it probably, cause you're very, very, small."

Usage

Slang

Inflected Forms

eats someone for breakfast (present, singular) eating someone for breakfast (participle, present) ate someone for breakfast (past) eaten someone for breakfast (participle, past)

Synonyms

eat someone's lunch beat bring down convince chew up eat someone for breakfast flog humble kick ass malavogue murdelize outfox

Questions

What does eat someone for breakfast mean?: To beat easily; to trounce.

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