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eats

/iːts/ noun A1
  1. Food. (colloquial) · When are we going to get some eats?
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It has eight of these long legs, and as the monster crawls through the forest he seizes an animal with a leg and drags it to his mouth, where he eats it as a spider does a fly.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, p. 135 · B2
de Villefort—I intend sending him away tomorrow, for he eats so enormously, to make up for the fast imposed upon him by his terror in that house.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 1050 · C1
He gets paler and thinner, and he eats nothing.
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, p. 29 · B2
Which way?”, holding her hand on the top of her head to feel which way it was growing, and she was quite surprised to find that she remained the same size: to be sure, this generally happens when one eats cake, but Alice had got so much into the way of expecting nothing but out-of-the-way things to happen, that it seemed quite dull and stupid for life to go on in the common way.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, p. 8 · B2

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