eat-all-you-can
English
editEtymology
editFrom eat + all + you + can, with the verb, eat, first then the adverb, all-you-can.
Adjective
editeat-all-you-can (not comparable)
- (Philippines) All-you-can-eat.
- year unknown, Aurelio Rico Lopez III, Zombies Don't Knock, Lulu.com (→ISBN), page 24:
- He'd have been more than just disappointed if he'd ended up an eat-all-you-can meal for the zombies outside.
- 2002, Likhaan: U.P. Creative Writing Center, The Likhaan Book of Poetry and Fiction, →ISBN:
- Lunch at Bob's Restaurant was an eat-all-you-can Mongolian barbeque. People were already milling around the buffet table, choosing which vegetable dishes they wanted to go with the tenderloin strips. But Lita was heaping nothing but red ...
- 1989, Andrew K. Arriola, Grace C. Pe, Discovering New Horizon: Anthology of Chinese Filipino Literature in English:
- "Have you been invited to an eat-all-you-can party?" "No. Who's throwing it? Were you invited? Why are you asking?" "Forget I asked. Besides, I don't know who's giving the party." When Blair put the phone back in its cradle, a slow smile was ...
- year unknown, Aurelio Rico Lopez III, Zombies Don't Knock, Lulu.com (→ISBN), page 24: