Word.ws English Dictionary

ate and run

ate and run is the past participle of eat and run.

Meaning of eat and run

Verb

eat and run (third-person singular simple present eats and runs, present participle eating and running, simple past ate and ran, past participle eaten and run)

  1. (colloquial, figuratively, intransitive) To consume a meal/snack quickly, then soon after depart immediately and/or in a hurry.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see eat, and, run.

Questions about ate and run

What is ate and run the past participle of?
Ate and run is the past participle of eat and run.

Words near ate and run in the dictionary

  1. atdts.
  2. ate
  3. ate an elephant one bite at a time
  4. ate and left no crumbs
  5. ate and ran
  6. ate and run
  7. ate ass
  8. ate away
  9. ate away at
  10. ate beaver
  11. ate boiled crow

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: ate and run (page history and authors); eat and run (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “ate and run.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/ate_and_run. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.