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eats up with a spoon

eats up with a spoon is the third-person singular simple present indicative of eat up with a spoon.

Meaning of eat up with a spoon

Verb

eat up with a spoon (third-person singular simple present eats up with a spoon, present participle eating up with a spoon, simple past ate up with a spoon, past participle eaten up with a spoon)

  1. (idiomatic, informal) To accept (something) very eagerly.
    • The public not only has the right to know, they eat it up with a spoon. Ratings rocketed.2010, J. D. Robb, Rapture in Death

Questions about eats up with a spoon

What is eats up with a spoon the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Eats up with a spoon is the third-person singular simple present indicative of eat up with a spoon.

Words near eats up with a spoon in the dictionary

  1. eats the onion
  2. eats the seed corn
  3. eats to windward
  4. eats twat
  5. eats up
  6. eats up with a spoon
  7. eats, breathes, and sleeps
  8. eatware
  9. eatworthy
  10. eaty
  11. eau

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