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eat someone for breakfast

eat someone for breakfast verb: to beat easily; to trounce.

Verb

eat someone for breakfast (third-person singular simple present eats someone for breakfast, present participle eating someone for breakfast, simple past ate someone for breakfast, past participle eaten someone for breakfast)

  1. (figuratively, slang) To beat easily; to trounce.
    • Worried? Nah, I eat punks like you for breakfast.
    • If you slip up, they're going to eat you for breakfast.

Synonyms of eat someone for breakfast

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Forms of eat someone for breakfast

third-person singular presenteats someone for breakfast
present participleeating someone for breakfast
pastate someone for breakfast
past participleeaten someone for breakfast

Questions about eat someone for breakfast

What does eat someone for breakfast mean?
Eat someone for breakfast means to beat easily; to trounce.
What part of speech is eat someone for breakfast?
Eat someone for breakfast is a verb.
What is the past tense of eat someone for breakfast?
The past tense of eat someone for breakfast is ate someone for breakfast.

Words near eat someone for breakfast in the dictionary

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

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