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ate up with a spoon

ate up with a spoon is the simple past of eat up with a spoon.

Meaning of eat up with a spoon

Verb

eat up with a spoon (third-person singular simple present eats up with a spoon, present participle eating up with a spoon, simple past ate up with a spoon, past participle eaten up with a spoon)

  1. (idiomatic, informal) To accept (something) very eagerly.
    • The public not only has the right to know, they eat it up with a spoon. Ratings rocketed.2010, J. D. Robb, Rapture in Death

Questions about ate up with a spoon

What is ate up with a spoon the simple past of?
Ate up with a spoon is the simple past of eat up with a spoon.

Words near ate up with a spoon in the dictionary

  1. ate the mic
  2. ate the onion
  3. ate the seed corn
  4. ate twat
  5. ate up
  6. ate up with a spoon
  7. ate, breathed, and slept
  8. ATEAC
  9. atebrin
  10. atebrine
  11. atebrines

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