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EAT

3 letters

✓ IT'S A WORD
TWL06 ✓ SOWPODS ✓ ENABLE1 ✓
Classic 1 pts
Big too short
(min 4)
Super Big too short
(min 4)

EAT is a valid 3-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 1 in Classic Boggle, though it's too short for Big and Super Big (which need four-letter words).

Word family

EATS-s 1 EATING-ing 3 ATE 1 EATEN-en 2

Might be on the same board

Other words sharing these letters — a good chance they hide on the same Boggle board.

EATINGS 5
verb
  1. ambitransitiveTo consume (something solid or semi-solid, usually food) by putting it into the mouth and swallowing it.
    • He's eating an apple.
    • Don't disturb me now. Can't you see that I'm eating?
  2. intransitiveTo consume a meal.
    • What time do we eat this evening?
  3. copulativeintransitiveTo have a particular quality of diet; to be well-fed or underfed.
    • I try to eat healthy these days.
  4. ergativeintransitiveTo be ingested.
    • It's a soup that eats like a meal.
  5. figurativelyoftentransitiveTo destroy, consume, or use up.
    • This project is eating up all the money.
    • That hobby eats his savings.
  6. figurativelyinformaltransitiveTo consume (an exception, an event, etc.) so that other parts of the program do not receive it.
  7. figurativelyinformaltransitiveTo damage, destroy, or fail to eject a removable part or an inserted object.
    • The VHS recorder just ate the tape and won't spit it out.
    • John is late for the meeting because the photocopier ate his report.
  8. figurativelyinformaltransitiveTo consume money (or other instruments of value, such as a token) deposited or inserted by a user, while failing to either provide the intended product or service or return the payment.
    • The video game in the corner just ate my quarter.
  9. informaltransitiveTo cause (someone) to worry.
    • What's eating you?
  10. transitiveTo take the loss in a transaction.
  11. slangtransitiveTo be injured or killed by (something such as a firearm or its projectile), especially in the mouth.
  12. ambitransitiveTo corrode or erode.
    • The acid rain ate away the statue. The strong acid eats through the metal.
  13. slangtransitiveTo perform oral sex (on a person or body part).
    • Eat me!
    • I ate his ass.
    • Yeah, eat that dick / eat that pussy.
  14. slangstativeTo do or perform well and stunningly; to consume a challenge successfully and stylishly; to rule, to slay.
    • You ate that performance!
    • This song eats!
  15. slangtransitiveTo annex.
noun
  1. colloquialSomething to be eaten; a meal; a food item.