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fill one's face

fill one's face verb: to eat, especially in a hearty or greedy manner.

Verb

fill one's face (third-person singular simple present fills one's face, present participle filling one's face, simple past and past participle filled one's face)

  1. (idiomatic) To eat, especially in a hearty or greedy manner.
    • Today is the last day to fill your faces with fare from Taste of the Town, at Town Center at Boca Raton.1994 April 22, A. D. Burch, “Gardens, Boynton Show Students's Art”, in Fort Lauderdale Sun Sentinel, retrieved 13 Oct 2013, page 8
    • But if you happen to be at a half-decent eaterie come May time, and you see a bloke filling his face, come up and say hello. It might just be me.2010 March 16, Darren Lewis, “Why I'm convinced Arsenal can win the title—I've even bet my dinner on it”, in Mirror Football, UK, retrieved 13 Oct 2013
    Synonyms:
    feed one's face, gorge oneself, stuff oneself

Synonyms of fill one's face

Forms of fill one's face

third-person singular presentfills one's face
present participlefilling one's face
past participlefilled one's face
pastfilled one's face

Questions about fill one's face

What does fill one's face mean?
Fill one's face means to eat, especially in a hearty or greedy manner.
What part of speech is fill one's face?
Fill one's face is a verb.
What is the past tense of fill one's face?
The past tense of fill one's face is filled one's face.

Words near fill one's face in the dictionary

  1. fill light
  2. fill line
  3. fill lines
  4. fill music
  5. fill one's boots
  6. fill one's face
  7. fill one's hand
  8. fill one's pants
  9. fill one's pockets
  10. fill or kill
  11. fill or kills

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