"eat like a pig" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: En-au-eat like a pig.ogg [Australia] Forms: eats like a pig [present, singular, third-person], eating like a pig [participle, present], ate like a pig [past], eaten like a pig [participle, past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|eat<,,ate,eaten> like a pig}} eat like a pig (third-person singular simple present eats like a pig, present participle eating like a pig, simple past ate like a pig, past participle eaten like a pig)
  1. (colloquial, simile) To chew noisily, with one's mouth open, especially while consuming large quantities greedily. Tags: colloquial Related terms: pigging out, pork-barrelling Translations (eat like a pig): comer feito porco (Portuguese), comer como um porco (Portuguese)
    Sense id: en-eat_like_a_pig-en-verb-MgqObeJ0 Categories (other): English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English predicates, English similes, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys

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