eat up
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.11 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To consume completely.
verb
To acclaim or praise (someone or something); to consume (absorb information).
Slang; Transitive verb
Example Sentences
- "He was so hungry that he ate up everything on his plate."
- "Dinner is served. Eat up!"
- "That, as one of my more sceptical industry insiders put it, is because there is a reluctance to commit funds to any of these plans - and we can put the blame firmly on the fact that HS2 is eating up £7bn per year for the whole term of this parliament."
- "His anger has been eating him up."
- "His behavior has eaten up all the goodwill we felt towards him."
- "The powerful car ate up the miles."
Usage
- Slang
- Transitive verb
- Informal
- American usage
Inflected Forms
Phrases
chow down
eat something up with a spoon