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eating and running

eating and running is the present participle and gerund 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 eating and running

What is eating and running the present participle and gerund of?
Eating and running is the present participle and gerund of eat and run.

Words near eating and running in the dictionary

  1. eatin'
  2. eatin's
  3. eating
  4. eating an elephant one bite at a time
  5. eating and leaving no crumbs
  6. eating and running
  7. eating apple
  8. eating apples
  9. eating ass
  10. eating away
  11. eating away at

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Adapted from Wiktionary: eating and running (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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