overeater

noun

Definition of overeaternext
as in pig
one who eats greedily or too much they decided to join a support group for overeaters

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  1. pig
  2. hog
  3. glutton
Noun
  • The races happen daily and feature pigs and wiener dogs dressed like hot dogs.
    Sheila Vilvens, Cincinnati.com, 20 July 2017
  • The league has rescued monkeys, pigs, ponies, even a drug dealer's cougar, and thousands of dogs and cats every year.
    John Kass, chicagotribune.com, 19 July 2017
Definition of pig
Noun
  • Some of the attendees had been drinking and went hog hunting in an ATV side-by-side owned by Jack Newton, Noah's best friend, Jack tells PEOPLE.
    Emily Palmer, Peoplemag, 26 July 2024
  • Most of her siblings remained there, and Gates would spend summers with his uncle Herbert, who owned a 500-acre farm, growing corn, cotton and soy beans and raising cattle and hogs.
    Siddhartha Mitter, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2024
Definition of hog
Noun
  • In fact, a recent article comparing the energy consumption spanning 20 years by the top 500 supercomputers in the world found that a publicly available quantum computer with the same compute power as the top-energy glutton on the list, consumed less than 0.05% of the electricity.
    Tor Constantino, MBA, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2024
  • Solar fields to help power these energy gluttons are expected to gobble up 10 million acres of rural land over the next 10 years.
    Dana Milbank, Washington Post, 10 July 2024
Definition of glutton
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overeaten

overeater

overeaters

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