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eat and ran

eat and ran is the simple past 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 eat and ran

What is eat and ran the simple past of?
Eat and ran is the simple past of eat and run.

Words near eat and ran in the dictionary

  1. eat a bag of dicks
  2. eat a burger
  3. eat a dick
  4. eat an elephant one bite at a time
  5. eat and leave no crumbs
  6. eat and ran
  7. eat and run
  8. eat ass
  9. Eat at Joe's
  10. eat away
  11. eat away at

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Adapted from Wiktionary: eat and ran (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.

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