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lap up

verb

to eat or drink
to relish or delight in
he laps up old horror films
to believe or accept eagerly and uncritically
he laps up tall stories

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Idioms and Phrases

Take in or receive very eagerly, as in She loves to travel—she just laps it up , or The agency is lapping up whatever information their spies send in . This expression alludes to an animal drinking greedily. [Late 1800s]

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Example Sentences

Unlike dozens of feral cats found dead on farms with outbreaks, these domestic cats didn’t roam around herds, lapping up milk that teemed with virus.

From Salon

These were the moments the media lapped up and when staff were kept on their toes.

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Pope punched the air and lapped up the applause, then saluted the England dressing room.

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On stage at Wembley, Swift lapped up the adulation, saying it was "a privilege to do the thing I love, in front of any size crowd at all".

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There is evidence of foreign-owned websites actively spreading disinformation which is lapped up and spread by extremists attached to an amorphous array of self-styled “patriot” groups.

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