"pile on the pounds" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "piles on the pounds",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "piling on the pounds",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "piled on the pounds",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "piled on the pounds",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*",
        "head": "pile on the pounds"
      },
      "expansion": "pile on the pounds (third-person singular simple present piles on the pounds, present participle piling on the pounds, simple past and past participle piled on the pounds)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2020 November 18, Paul Bigland, “New infrastructure and new rolling stock”, in Rail, page 51:",
          "text": "The line is single track as far as Halesworth, but many of the stations retain their original buildings - including refurbished Beccles, which boasts a station cafe and community rooms. The same is true of Wickham Market and Woodbridge stations. You could easily pile on the pounds with a 'cafe crawl' along this line!",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Of a person: to gain weight quickly."
      ],
      "id": "en-pile_on_the_pounds-en-verb-bxLm71Gw",
      "links": [
        [
          "gain",
          "gain"
        ],
        [
          "weight",
          "weight"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal) Of a person: to gain weight quickly."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "pile on the pounds"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "piles on the pounds",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "piling on the pounds",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "piled on the pounds",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "piled on the pounds",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*",
        "head": "pile on the pounds"
      },
      "expansion": "pile on the pounds (third-person singular simple present piles on the pounds, present participle piling on the pounds, simple past and past participle piled on the pounds)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English informal terms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2020 November 18, Paul Bigland, “New infrastructure and new rolling stock”, in Rail, page 51:",
          "text": "The line is single track as far as Halesworth, but many of the stations retain their original buildings - including refurbished Beccles, which boasts a station cafe and community rooms. The same is true of Wickham Market and Woodbridge stations. You could easily pile on the pounds with a 'cafe crawl' along this line!",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Of a person: to gain weight quickly."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "gain",
          "gain"
        ],
        [
          "weight",
          "weight"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal) Of a person: to gain weight quickly."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "pile on the pounds"
}