Eat vs Hoop - What's the difference?
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To ingest; to be ingested.
#(lb) To consume (something solid or semi-solid, usually food) by putting it into the mouth and swallowing it.
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#*:At twilight in the summer there is never anybody to fear—man, woman, or cat—in the chambers and at that hour the mice come out. They do not eat' parchment or foolscap or red tape, but they ' eat the luncheon crumbs.
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#(senseid) To consume a meal.
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# To be eaten.
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To use up.
#(lb) To destroy, consume, or use up.
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#*(William Makepeace Thackeray) (1811-1863)
#*:His wretched estate is eaten up with mortgages.
# To damage, destroy, or fail to eject a removable part or an inserted object.
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#*(Bruce Willis) in the movie (The Last Boy Scout)
#*:No! There's a problem with the cassette player. Don't press fast forward or it eats the tape!
# To consume money or (other instruents of value, such as a token) deposited or inserted by a user, while failing to either provide the intended product or service, or return the payment.
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#*From the movie
#*:Hey! This stupid [soda vending] machine ate my quarter.
To cause (someone) to worry.
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To take the loss in a transaction.
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*From the movie (Midnight Run)
*:I have to have him in court tomorrow, if he doesn't show up, I forfeit the bond and I have to eat the $300,000.
(lb) To corrode or erode.
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To perform oral sex on someone.
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A circular band of metal used to bind a barrel.
A ring; a circular band; anything resembling a hoop.
(mostly, in plural) A circle, or combination of circles, of thin whalebone, metal, or other elastic material, used for expanding the skirts of ladies' dresses; crinoline.
* Alexander Pope
A quart pot; so called because originally bound with hoops, like a barrel. Also, a portion of the contents measured by the distance between the hoops.
(UK, obsolete) An old measure of capacity, variously estimated at from one to four pecks.
(plural) The game of basketball.
A hoop earring.
(Australia, metonym, informal, dated) A jockey; from a common pattern on the blouse''.“
To bind or fasten using a hoop.
To clasp; to encircle; to surround.
(dated) To utter a loud cry, or a sound imitative of the word, by way of call or pursuit; to shout.
(dated) To whoop, as in whooping cough.
As a verb eat
is to ingest; to be ingested.As a noun hoop is
(soccer) someone connected with , as a fan, player, coach etc.eat
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Verb
Synonyms
* (consume) consume, swallow; see also * (cause to worry) bother, disturb, worry * (eat a meal) dine, breakfast, chow down, feed one's face, have one's breakfast/lunch/dinner/supper/tea, lunchDerived terms
* don't shit where you eat * eater * eat crow * eatery, eaterie * eat humble pie * eat in * eating * eat into * eat like a bird * eat like a horse * eat like a pig * eat my shorts * eat one's hat * eat one's Wheaties * eat one's words * eat out * eat pussy * eats * eat shit and die * eat someone alive * eat someone's lunch * eat up * eatworthy * pie-eater * you are what you eat * what's eating you?See also
* drink * food * edibleStatistics
*hoop
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(wikipedia hoop)Etymology 1
From (etyl) hoop, hoope, from (etyl) ). More at (l).Noun
(en noun)- the cheese hoop , or cylinder in which the curd is pressed in making cheese
- stiff with hoops , and armed with ribs of whale
- (Halliwell)
hoop”, entry in 1989 , Joan Hughes, ''Australian Words and Their Origins , page 261.
Derived terms
* hula hoop * jump through hoopsVerb
(en verb)- to hoop a barrel or puncheon
- (Shakespeare)