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▸ verb: (transitive, intransitive) To consume (something solid or semi-solid, usually food) by putting it into the mouth and swallowing it.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To consume a meal.
▸ verb: (intransitive, ergative) To be eaten.
▸ verb: (copulative, intransitive) To have a particular quality of diet; to be well-fed or underfed (typically as "eat healthy" or "eat good").
▸ verb: To use up.
▸ verb: (transitive, often with up) To destroy, consume, or use up.
▸ verb: (transitive, programming, informal) To consume (an exception, an event, etc.) so that other parts of the program do not receive it.
▸ verb: (transitive, informal, of a device) To damage, destroy, or fail to eject a removable part or an inserted object.
▸ verb: (transitive, informal, of a vending machine or similar device) To consume money (or other instruments of value, such as a token) deposited or inserted by a user, while failing to either provide the intended product or service or return the payment.
▸ verb: (transitive, informal) To cause (someone) to worry.
▸ verb: (transitive, business) To take the loss in a transaction.
▸ verb: (transitive, slang) To be injured or killed by (something such as a firearm or its projectile), especially in the mouth.
▸ verb: (transitive, intransitive) To corrode or erode.
▸ verb: (transitive, slang) To perform oral sex (on a person or body part).
▸ verb: (stative, slang) To be very good; to rule; to rock.
▸ verb: (transitive, slang) To annex.
▸ noun: (colloquial) Something to be eaten; a meal; a food item.
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