EAT IN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does eat in mean? 

• EAT IN (verb)
  The verb EAT IN has 1 sense:

1. eat at home

  Familiarity information: EAT IN used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EAT IN (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Eat at home

Classified under:

Verbs of eating and drinking

Synonyms:

dine in; eat in

Hypernyms (to "eat in" is one way to...):

eat (eat a meal; take a meal)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Sentence example:

Sam and Sue eat in

Antonym:

eat out (eat at a restaurant or at somebody else's home)

 Context examples 

They move in order to eat in order that they may keep moving.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

What I mean to express is, that there is nothing to eat in the house.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I've seen him eat in a ten-cent hash-house and pay fifty cents for the cigar he smoked afterward.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

During the first year, I could not endure my wife or children in my presence; the very smell of them was intolerable; much less could I suffer them to eat in the same room.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

"Our results suggest that changing the timing of when you eat in relation to when you exercise can bring about profound and positive changes to your overall health," Gonzalez said in a press release.

(Exercise before Breakfast Burns More Fat, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Her majesty used to put a bit of meat upon one of my dishes, out of which I carved for myself, and her diversion was to see me eat in miniature: for the queen (who had indeed but a weak stomach) took up, at one mouthful, as much as a dozen English farmers could eat at a meal, which to me was for some time a very nauseous sight.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)