Meanings
present singular third person fills one's face · participle present filling one's face · participle past filled one's face · past filled one's face
- idiomaticTo eat, especially in a hearty or greedy manner.
Today is the last day to fill your faces with fare from Taste of the Town, at Town Center at Boca Raton.
1994 April 22, A. D. Burch, “Gardens, Boynton Show Students's Art”, in Fort Lauderdale Sun Sentinel, retrieved 13 Oct 2013, page 84 more examples
But if you happen to be at a half-decent eaterie come May time, and you see a bloke filling his face, come up and say hello. It might just be me.
2010 March 16, Darren Lewis, “Why I'm convinced Arsenal can win the title—I've even bet my dinner on it”, in Mirror Football, UK, retrieved 13 Oct 2013Three or four times a week we'd see Ronnie Kray filling his face at Browns in the pulsatingly plush restaurant.
2010, David Dinwoodie Irving, African Cookboy, →ISBN, page 148Last night, after the celeb chefs and food lovers at the South Beach Wine and Food Festival filled their faces at the massive barbecue event BubbleQ and Best of the Best, they headed to the parking garage.
2011 February 16, “Miami's Hottest Party Was Let Them Eat Cake”, in eater.com, retrieved 13 Oct 2013“And they're all eating! Peanuts, doughnuts, potato chips, just filling their faces. The fat Americans!”
2011, Vin Packer, Alone at Night, →ISBNSynonyms: feed one's face, gorge oneself, stuff oneself
Synonyms & antonyms
verbTo eat, especially in a hearty or greedy manner.
Translations
Chinese Mandarin 狼吞虎嚥 /狼吞虎咽
- 狼吞虎嚥 /狼吞虎咽 (lángtūnhǔyàn)eat in a hearty manner
Finnish kauhoa, ahmia
- kauhoaeat in a hearty manner
- ahmiaeat in a hearty manner
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