Usually means: Consume completely, often enthusiastically.
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We found 18 dictionaries that define the word eat up:

General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. eat (something) up, eat up: Merriam-Webster
  2. eat up: Collins English Dictionary
  3. eat up: Vocabulary.com
  4. eat (sth) up: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. eat up: Wiktionary
  6. eat up: Dictionary.com
  7. eat up: Rhymezone
  8. eat up: FreeDictionary.org
  9. eat up: Mnemonic Dictionary
  10. eat up: TheFreeDictionary.com
  11. eat up: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. eat up: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. eat up: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Eat up, eat up: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. eat up, eat up: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. eat up: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (eat up)

verb:  (ambitransitive) To consume completely.
verb:  (transitive, slang, figurative) To cause (someone) to obsess; to figuratively consume (someone).
verb:  (transitive, figurative) To subtract, use up.
verb:  (transitive, figurative, informal) To accept or believe entirely, immediately, and without questioning.
verb:  (transitive, slang) To acclaim or praise (someone or something).
verb:  (transitive, US, informal, chiefly of children or pets) To find something to be very cute.
verb:  (transitive, slang, figurative) To go quickly on a route.
verb:  (transitive, slang) To be very good at; to succeed at; to smash. (Compare eat and leave no crumbs.)

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