(less common) Alternative form of the proof of the pudding is in the eating

(US) A kind of undergraduate social club, which includes meals, now limited to a few private colleges and universities.

That consumes flesh; meat-eating. / Of bacteria, necrotizing.

Alternative form of cheese-eating

(often used attributively) The act of ratting on or informing. / Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cheese, eating.

(usually attributive) Alternative form of cheese eating

(informal) Superior and self-satisfied.

(transitive) To erode. / (transitive) To consume or use up, erode or wear away gradually. / (transitive) To cause to feel uneasy, troubled, worried, guilty, or vexed; to bother about something.

That uses opium as a recreational drug.

(US, slang, vulgar, chiefly Miami) To do nothing of importance; to idle.