eats
pronunciation
How to pronounce eats in British English:
UK [i:ts]
How to pronounce eats in American English:
US [its]
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- Noun:
- informal terms for a meal
Word Origin
- eats (n.)
- "food," in use by 1889 in U.S., considered colloquial, but the same construction with the same meaning was present in Old English.
Example
- 1. Usually he eats eight or nine .
- 2. 1 The average american eats 61 pounds of refined sugar each year , including 25 pounds of candy .
- 3. That eats into their profit margins .
- 4. Kolkata , india : a rickshaw puller eats beside a busy road .
- 5. And they 're paying relatively high interest rates , which further eats into their relatively lower income , reducing their wealth potential .