eat up

verb eats up · eating up · ate up · eaten up

1. ambitransitive To consume completely. He was so hungry that he ate up everything on his plate.
2. figuratively, slang, transitive To cause (someone) to obsess; to figuratively consume (someone). His anger has been eating him up.
3. figuratively, transitive To subtract, use up. His behavior has eaten up all the goodwill we felt towards him.
4. figuratively, informal, transitive To accept or believe entirely, immediately, and without questioning. She ate up everything that her image consultant said.
5. slang, transitive To acclaim or praise (someone or something); to consume (absorb information). They eat up every book he puts out.
6. US, informal, transitive, of children or pets To find something to be very cute. You're so cute, I could just eat you up!
7. figuratively, slang, transitive To go quickly on a route. We ate up the road to Pennsylvania.
8. slang, transitive To be very good at; to succeed at; to smash. (Compare eat and leave no crumbs.) One fan shared a snippet from the music video wherein Jungkook and Han So-hee are drowning in water. Despite the catastrophic situation, the lovers are squabbling with each other. The fan commented: “The laundromat cause they ate that up”.
9. informal, slang To completely dominate someone else, especially with a comeback or clapback. Girl, you ate him up!