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ate someone's dust

ate someone's dust is the simple past of eat someone's dust.

Meaning of eat someone's dust

Verb

eat someone's dust (third-person singular simple present eats someone's dust, present participle eating someone's dust, simple past ate someone's dust, past participle eaten someone's dust)

  1. (idiomatic, informal) To be outrun.
    • You better move fast before you eat his dust.
  2. (informal) To get one to be on a losing end.

Questions about ate someone's dust

What is ate someone's dust the simple past of?
Ate someone's dust is the simple past of eat someone's dust.

Words near ate someone's dust in the dictionary

  1. ate shit
  2. ate someone alive
  3. ate someone for breakfast
  4. ate someone out of house and home
  5. ate someone's ass
  6. ate someone's dust
  7. ate someone's heart
  8. ate someone's lunch
  9. ate something up
  10. ate something up with a spoon
  11. ate the baby

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