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a southern way of saying someone has (multiple) std’s
I wanna take Maryanne out man!”
“You don’t wanna do that, she’s eat up”
eat up by Dolly Patrón December 26, 2023

eat up his weight in groceries 

From the 1971 song "Amos Moses", a phrase referring to a person that gorges on food. It literally means that one can eat the equivalent of their weight in food, and unless the person exercises vigorously, the chances are high that they're huge.
(There) lived a man named Doc Milsap and his pretty wife Hanna, (and) they raised up a son who could eat up his weight in groceries! Named him after a man of the cloth, Called him Amos Moses!" -Jerry Reed, "Amos Moses

eat up a storm or eat a storm 

To eat up a storm or eat a storm -

it means to eat out of control . To eat wrong combination of food. To eat anything and everything . To lack control over eating. It could be probably as a result of large appetite, lost of blood due to excessive monthly flow in women, after intake of antibiotics or any lost of blood or due to bad eating habits that are difficult to control.

* I am an Attorney from Nigeria. From the oil rich City of Warri in Delta of Nigeria. Okra Soup and Garri is a popular local food among the Southern people of Nigeria. Okra is spelled Okro by most people in Nigeria. Garri is prepared from cassava flakes while Okro soup is prepared from the Vegetable crop Okro together with fish or meat etc.
Eat up a storm or eat a storm

Esther: I m not feeling well. My stomach is upset.

Sunshine: Sorry about that. Did you eat anything bad last night?

Esther: Just my dinner, Garri and Okra soup.
Sunshine: Okra soup can upset sometimes, depending on what you ate in the afternoon...or after dinner.

Sunshine: And you know you have been eating a storm for the past few days ...

Esther: Yes.

Esther: I ate beans, yam, watermelon in the afternoon.

Estherhome : I even ate cucumber and groundnut with biscuits after the meal because I was still hungry after dinner.

Sunshine: I said it. You have been eating up a storm lately
Sunshine: Cucumber and groundnut with biscuits after okra soup ? Jesus!!! You really do eat up a storm these days.

yum yum eat em up

in the 1933 Little Rascals film titled The Kid from Borneo (1933)The kids' uncle George, whom they've never seen, is the black sheep of the family, and their father won't let him come visit. George is a promoter, and the kids mistake his Wild Man of Borneo for their uncle himself and bring him home. But the Wild Man has a sweet tooth, and his near-constant chant of "yum yum, eat'em up!" is predictably mistaken by the kids. Chaos ensues.
Man from borneo lifts bed skirt (where some of the kids are hiding) and chants 'Yum yum eat em up'
yum yum eat em up by Pedro October 28, 2004

So cute that I would eat you up!

A metaphor that means that something is so cute, well you would eat it up. Really, it’s pretty terrifying. A funny though is just thinking if this goes for every animal when the eat something.
Lion: this youngling is so cute that I would eat you up!
Antelopes: aw thank you, she gets it from her mommy
Lion: *proceeds to maul and brutally kill the baby*

eat you up 

Guy1:"aww that your soo cute i would eat you up"

Guy2: "dude stop trying to bite me you homo"
eat you up by GnaOly December 22, 2008