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🇪🇸Spanish Source WordCode: ES

atracón

Pronunciation / Transliteration: atracon

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Pig-out/ˈpɪɡ.aʊt/
nounverbCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #14500 frequency
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🇪🇸 Example Sentence in Spanish:

"Nos dimos un atracón de comida rápida durante el partido."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    An occasion of eating a large amount of food greedily or to excess.

    "After hiking all day, we had a major pig-out on pizza and burgers."
As verb
  1. 1

    To eat a very large amount of food; to indulge oneself excessively in something.

    "I plan to stay home all weekend, watch movies, and pig out on snacks."
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Antonyms & Contrasting Words (1)

Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the noun 'pig' in reference to the animal's notoriously greedy eating habits, combined with the phrasal particle 'out'. First appearing in American slang during the mid-20th century, the term originally described a heavy, unrestrained meal before broadening to encompass any instance of excessive indulgence.

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