EATS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does eats mean? 

• EATS (noun)
  The noun EATS has 1 sense:

1. informal terms for a meal

  Familiarity information: EATS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EATS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Informal terms for a meal

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

chow; chuck; eats; grub

Hypernyms ("eats" is a kind of...):

fare (the food and drink that are regularly served or consumed)

 Context examples 

The amount of pancreatic polypeptide in the blood increases after a person eats.

(Pancreatic polypeptide, NCI Dictionary)

Only three of us.—besides dear Jane at present—and she really eats nothing—makes such a shocking breakfast, you would be quite frightened if you saw it.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

The things a person eats and drinks.

(Diet, NCI Dictionary)

A health professional with special training in nutrition who can offer help with the choice of foods a person eats and drinks.

(Dietitian, NCI Dictionary)

Where there is room for one life, she sows a thousand lives, and it’s life eats life till the strongest and most piggish life is left.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

I suppose the professor eats hardly anything?

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He eats so little that I often wonder it can keep life in one.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She eats and drinks and sleeps like a sensible creature, she looks straight in my face when I talk about that man, and only blushes a little bit when Teddy jokes about lovers.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has observed a planet outside our solar system that looks as black as fresh asphalt because it eats light rather than reflecting it back into space.

(Hubble Captures Blistering Pitch-Black Planet, NASA)

When a person with celiac disease eats or drinks anything with gluten, the body’s immune system attacks the inside of the small intestine.

(Virus linked to food sensitivity, NIH)