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eat shit

Also, eat crap. Submit to degrading treatment, as in He refused to eat shit from the coach. James T. Farrell had the one term in Grandeur (1930), “They don't eat nobody's crap,” and Mario Puzo the other in Dark Arena (1955), “He'd eaten shit all week.” [Vulgar slang; second half of 1800s]

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Nearby words

eat one's hat, eat one's heart out, eat one's words, eat out, eat out of someone's hand, eat shit, eat someone alive, eat someone out, eat someone out of house and home, eat someone up, eat someone's ass out
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