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eats the onion

eats the onion is the third-person singular simple present indicative of eat the onion.

Meaning of eat the onion

Verb

eat the onion (third-person singular simple present eats the onion, present participle eating the onion, simple past ate the onion, past participle eaten the onion)

  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see eat, the, onion.
  2. (colloquial, idiomatic) To be fooled by a work of satire, particularly in the satirical newspaper The Onion.
    • No, the original plan for Chicago's street layout was not scribbled on the back of a napkin by an ancestor of Roger Ebert; you just ate the onion.

Questions about eats the onion

What is eats the onion the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Eats the onion is the third-person singular simple present indicative of eat the onion.

Words near eats the onion in the dictionary

  1. eats something up
  2. eats something up with a spoon
  3. eats the baby
  4. eats the leek
  5. eats the mic
  6. eats the onion
  7. eats the seed corn
  8. eats to windward
  9. eats twat
  10. eats up
  11. eats up with a spoon

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