house
verb
| HOWSS
to eat or drink all of (something) very quickly
What does house mean?
To house food or drink is to consume all of it very quickly.
Examples of house
She housed that crab and said oh it’s ok.. she ate it like her last meal good god
—@amtrobia, Reddit, 30 Jan. 2025
Absolutely housed a whole artichoke for dinner.
—Tried my first capicola sub, gonna be in the rotation from now on. No pics, housed it.
—Damn. Stafford housed that beer!
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Where does house come from?
In both Cassell’s Dictionary of Slang (2000) and the Chambers Slang Dictionary (2008), English lexicographer Jonathan Green records a sense of the verb house from the United States meaning “to outdo, to defeat,” which he dates to the 1980s. The devour sense of house may be an extension of this—demolish and destroy are also used similarly to mean both “to defeat” and “to consume ravenously/entirely.”
How is house used?
At least in print, house is usually encountered in the past tense, once the rapid food consumption has occurred and been deemed impressive by either the eater or the witness to the eating …
That evening we broke out cocktails and binged on “The Haunting of Hill House,” during which I housed an entire bag of Chex Mix.
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… but not always.
Not only is pizza photogenic, but it’s also easy to tell from the visuals if a pizza is good or not. Is the cheese all bubbly and the crust dotted with proper char? … I’m gonna house that.
—If you’re gonna house a dish of pasta for lunch on a weekday, might as well just go all the way.
—He began his speech by noting he’d noticed — or someone had told him — that a picture of him housing a burger at the beloved southwestern fast food chain was a smash on social media.
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