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etten and run

etten and run is the past participle 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 etten and run

What is etten and run the past participle of?
Etten and run is the past participle of eat and run.

Words near etten and run in the dictionary

  1. Ettamogah
  2. Ettanin
  3. Ettelbruck
  4. etten
  5. etten and ran
  6. etten and run
  7. Etten-Leur
  8. Ettenberg
  9. Ettenbergs
  10. Etter
  11. Etterbeek

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Adapted from Wiktionary: etten and run (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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