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eat someone's dust

eat someone's dust verb: to be outrun.

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.

Forms of eat someone's dust

third-person singular presenteats someone's dust
present participleeating someone's dust
pastate someone's dust
past participleeaten someone's dust

Words formed from eat someone's dust

Questions about eat someone's dust

What does eat someone's dust mean?
Eat someone's dust means to be outrun.
What part of speech is eat someone's dust?
Eat someone's dust is a verb.
What is the past tense of eat someone's dust?
The past tense of eat someone's dust is ate someone's dust.

Words near eat someone's dust in the dictionary

  1. eat shit
  2. eat someone alive
  3. eat someone for breakfast
  4. eat someone out of house and home
  5. eat someone's ass
  6. eat someone's dust
  7. eat someone's heart
  8. eat someone's lunch
  9. eat the baby
  10. eat the bread of idleness
  11. eat the leek

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