Meanings
present singular third person feeds one's face · participle present feeding one's face · participle past fed one's face · past fed one's face
- informalTo eat.
"Feed your face, and we'll go upstream." Bob ate rapidly.
1910, Stewart Edward White, chapter 13, in The Rules of the Game3 more examples
"Step up and feed your face." "What?" stammered Samuel, perplexed. "EAT!" said the other.
1909, Upton Sinclair, chapter 4, in Samuel the SeekerWhile the players are out there whacking away at tennis balls, the lower-deck patrons are feeding their faces on $5 shrimps and sipping $10 glasses of wine.
1997 August 31, George Vecsey, “Sports: Fill Ashe Stadium With Some Real Fans”, in New York Times, retrieved 13 Oct 2013“Though why I should give the boys bacon and eggs when they've already fed their faces wi' fish 'n' chips, I can't imagine.”
2010, Katie Flynn, The Cuckoo Child, →ISBN, page 292Synonyms: fill one's face
Synonyms & antonyms
verbTo eat.
Translations
Finnish vetää naamaan
- vetää naamaanrude expression for "to eat"
Hungarian zabál, kajál
- zabálrude expression for "to eat"
- kajálrude expression for "to eat"
- tömi magát/a fejét/a hasátrude expression for "to eat"
Polish nażerać się, nażreć się
- nażerać sięrude expression for "to eat"
- nażreć sięrude expression for "to eat"
- napychać sięrude expression for "to eat"
- napchać sięrude expression for "to eat"
- opychać sięrude expression for "to eat"
- opchać sięrude expression for "to eat"
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