finish (sth) up
— phrasal verb with finish uk/ˈfɪn.ɪʃ/us/ˈfɪn.ɪʃ/verb
to eat or drink all of what you are eating or drinking:
Finish up your dinner and you can have dessert.
More examples
- We're leaving in five minutes, so finish up your breakfast quickly.
- Between them, they finished up the entire bottle of whiskey.
- There's only one chocolate left in the box, so why don't you finish it up?
- The children didn't take long to finish up their chips.
- Quick, finish up before Mum comes back with the dessert.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Eating
- al desko
- ate
- binge
- binge eating
- bite
- consume
- feast
- feast on sth
- feeder
- feeding
- finish
- gorge
- put sth away
- scarf
- scoff
- shovel sth into your mouth idiom
- snack
- stoke
- swallow
- tuck
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