lap up

[lap up] {v.}

1. To eat or drink with the tip of the tongue.

* /The kitten laps up its milk./

2. {informal} To take in eagerly.

* /She flatters him all the time and he just laps it up./

* /William is interested in rockets and space, and he laps up all he can read about them./

Syn.: EAT UP(3).

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms


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