"eat like a horse" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: En-au-eat like a horse.ogg [Australia] Forms: eats like a horse [present, singular, third-person], eating like a horse [participle, present], ate like a horse [past], eaten like a horse [participle, past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|eat<,,ate,eaten> like a horse}} eat like a horse (third-person singular simple present eats like a horse, present participle eating like a horse, simple past ate like a horse, past participle eaten like a horse)
  1. (colloquial, simile) To eat large amounts of food. (connoting a large quantity of food, but not one of gluttony or sloppiness) Tags: colloquial Related terms: I could eat a horse, work like a horse, piss like a racehorse, eat like a pig, eat like a bird, wolf (english: as a verb, of eating ravenously) Translations (eat large amounts): syödä kuin hevonen (Finnish), manger comme un ogre (French), manger comme quatre (French), comer como um animal (Portuguese), жрать как конь (žratʹ kak konʹ) (english: rude) (Russian), comer como un animal (Spanish), tener buen saque (Spanish), פֿרעסן ווי אַ פֿערד (fresn vi a ferd) (Yiddish)

Inflected forms

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          "sense": "eat large amounts",
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      "sense": "eat large amounts",
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      "sense": "eat large amounts",
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      "sense": "eat large amounts",
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      "sense": "eat large amounts",
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