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feed one's face en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (informal) To eat.
    • “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 292:
    • While 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:
    • "Feed your face, and we'll go upstream." Bob ate rapidly. 1910, Stewart Edward White, chapter 13, in The Rules of the Game:
    • "Step up and feed your face." "What?" stammered Samuel, perplexed. "EAT!" said the other. 1909, Upton Sinclair, chapter 4, in Samuel the Seeker:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
fed one's face Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
fed one's face Tense=Past lexicographic
feeding one's face Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
feeds one's face Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic

Synonyms

fill one's face

Translations (10)

hu kajál (rude expression for "to eat") · pl nażreć się (rude expression for "to eat") · pl opychać się (rude expression for "to eat") · pl opchać się (rude expression for "to eat") · pl nażerać się (rude expression for "to eat") · pl napychać się (rude expression for "to eat") · hu zabál (rude expression for "to eat") · fi vetää naamaan (rude expression for "to eat") · pl napchać się (rude expression for "to eat") · hu tömi magát/a fejét/a hasát (rude expression for "to eat")