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Ate

verb. past, pluperfect, and future perfect version of the word eat
To encounter an event, obstacle, or objective which is so trivial in comparison to the subject-actor's ability that the subject easily overcomes, ignores, achieves, or obtains in excess the event/obstacle/objective.

Metaphorically framing an event/obstacle/objective as similar to the relatively common act of eating food, to elevate the esteem/reputation of the subject-actor by implying that the event/obstacle/objective is easy, unremarkable, or ineffective compared to some trait or skill that the subject-actor's has.

See also, sibling terms "eating" and "I eat those"
A: Did you see my runtime just now?
B: Yea you ate, you went off.
C: You made it look easy! Butttt, I heard they're adding extra hurdles to the 500m race.
A: Pft, so what? I eat those. You'll see, after the tournament we'll be eating good, we'll be scooping up gold medal after gold medal.
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E: Me and F had a fight behind the school yesterday.
F: Damn, what? His punches hard! what you do, you don't even look scratched
E: I was in the wrong so I just stood there and ate his punches until he tired himself out.
by Darkhed June 29, 2023
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Ate

To describe doing a phenomanal job at something; usually towards a person
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i ate a cat

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Cooked and Ate

Meaning: To succeed at something and be beneficiary of it to the fullest.
It is a neologism that can be used informally, to congratulate someone/hype them up.
After a success
My bro "Cooked and Ate"
by retiredretardreturns January 7, 2024
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i ate the axe

An alternative way of saying "I hate the blacks" without sounding racist. Used to bypass filtering system in games (most commonly on Roblox text to speech games, like baer).
The_Bronzong: "i ate the axe"
Tessa: "Well damn"
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My kid ate a car and broke it
by Mariah is a fish June 26, 2021
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ate-lynn

fire , cool ,different, unique , a hoe
a different way to spell kate-lynn , kate-lynn is a hoe
by I NEED HEADPHONES June 5, 2020
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