English

Verb

feed one's face

1. (idiomatic) To eat.
   • 1909, Upton Sinclair, Samuel the Seeker, ch. 4:

     "Step up and feed your face."

     "What?" stammered Samuel, perplexed.

     "EAT!" said the other.

   • 1910, Stewart Edward White, The Rules of the Game, ch. 13:

     "Feed your face, and we'll go upstream." Bob ate rapidly.

   • 1997 Aug. 31, George Vecsey, "Sports: Fill Ashe Stadium With Some Real Fans," New York Times (retrieved 13 Oct 2013):

     While the players are out there whacking away at tennis balls, the lower-deck patrons are feeding their faces on $5 shrimps and sipping $10 glasses of wine.

   • 2010, Katie Flynn, The Cuckoo Child, ISBN 9781446411193, p. 292 (Google preview):

     “Though why I should give the boys bacon and eggs when they've already fed their faces wi' fish 'n' chips, I can't imagine.”

Usage notes

• Sometimes used in a rude or indelicate manner, suggestive that eating is merely a crude bodily function.

Synonyms

• fill one's face