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leave no crumbs

leave no crumbs is the ellipsis of eat and leave no crumbs.

Meaning of eat and leave no crumbs

Verb

eat and leave no crumbs (third-person singular simple present eats and leaves no crumbs, present participle eating and leaving no crumbs, simple past ate and left no crumbs, past participle eaten and left no crumbs)

  1. (idiomatic, slang) To do or perform in a thorough and stunning manner without mess or wasted opportunity; to wholly consume a challenge successfully and stylishly. Synonym of eat (“to be very good at something; to rule; to slay”).
    • Pedro Pascal and Sarah Paulson both ate and left no crumbs in a Saturday Night Live sketch that poked fun at fancams in the era of TikTok.2023 February 5, Jessica Wang, “Pedro Pascal is daddy and Sarah Paulson is mommy in SNL's fancam sketch”, in Entertainment Weekly, archived from the original on 05 Apr 2023

Forms of leave no crumbs

third-person singular presentleaves no crumbs
present participleleaving no crumbs
past participleleft no crumbs
pastleft no crumbs

Questions about leave no crumbs

What is leave no crumbs the ellipsis of?
Leave no crumbs is the ellipsis of eat and leave no crumbs.

Words near leave no crumbs in the dictionary

  1. leave it be
  2. leave it out
  3. leave little to the imagination
  4. leave me alone
  5. leave much to be desired
  6. leave no crumbs
  7. leave no stone unturned
  8. leave no trace
  9. leave nothing in the tank
  10. leave of absence
  11. leave off

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Adapted from Wiktionary: leave no crumbs (page history and authors); eat and leave no crumbs (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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