食らう – Vocabulary details

食くらう

Meanings

Verb (5-dan, う, transitive)

Vulgar

1. to eat; to drink; to wolf; to knock back

ひたすら肉にくを食くらう。I just keep wolfing down meat.

2. to receive (e.g. a blow)

あの時ときは見み事ごとな一いち撃げきを食くらったよ。I really took a beautiful hit that time.

3. to be on the receiving end (of something undesirable); to undergo (trouble)

そんな迷めい惑わくなことしたら、会かい社しゃから処しょ分ぶんを食くらうぞ。If you do something that inconsiderate, the company will punish you.

Alt. forms

Kanji used

食

eat

Pitch accent

く

ら

う

Conjugations...Used in: 2965

Used in vocabulary (10 in total)

面めん食くらう

to be confused; to be bewildered; to be taken aback

肩かた透すかしを食くらう

to suffer a disappointment; to feel let down; to have one's attack (question, etc.) sidestepped; to be given the slip

肩かたすかしを食くらう

to suffer a disappointment; to feel let down; to have one's attack (question, etc.) sidestepped; to be given the slip

7 more...

Examples (11 in total)

不ふ意い打うちを食くらっちゃった。

I was caught off guard.

足あし止どめを食くらってばかりだ。

I keep getting held up.

ひたすら肉にくを食くらう。

I just keep wolfing down meat.

後こう頭とう部ぶに一いち撃げきを食くらった。

I took a blow to the back of the head.

腹はらが減へっていたので、飯めしを食くらった。

I was starving, so I wolfed down some food.

部ぶ長ちょうの雷かみなりを食くらってしまった。

I got chewed out by the department head.

あの時ときは見み事ごとな一いち撃げきを食くらったよ。

I really took a beautiful hit that time.

彼かの女じょは彼かれの顔かおに平ひら手て打うちを食くらわせた。

She gave him a slap in the face.

そのボクサーはボディーに一いち撃げき食くらった。

The boxer received a blow to the body.

銀ぎん行こう強ごう盗とうすると懲ちょう役えき１０年ねん食くらうぞ。

Bank robbery will cost you ten years in prison.

そんな迷めい惑わくなことしたら、会かい社しゃから処しょ分ぶんを食くらうぞ。