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ate the onion

ate the onion is the simple past of eat the onion.

Meaning of eat the onion

Verb

eat the onion (third-person singular simple present eats the onion, present participle eating the onion, simple past ate the onion, past participle eaten the onion)

  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see eat, the, onion.
  2. (colloquial, idiomatic) To be fooled by a work of satire, particularly in the satirical newspaper The Onion.
    • No, the original plan for Chicago's street layout was not scribbled on the back of a napkin by an ancestor of Roger Ebert; you just ate the onion.

Questions about ate the onion

What is ate the onion the simple past of?
Ate the onion is the simple past of eat the onion.

Words near ate the onion in the dictionary

  1. ate something up with a spoon
  2. ate the baby
  3. ate the bread of idleness
  4. ate the leek
  5. ate the mic
  6. ate the onion
  7. ate the seed corn
  8. ate twat
  9. ate up
  10. ate up with a spoon
  11. ate, breathed, and slept

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