consume mass quantities

consume mass quantities
a) To eat or drink abundant amounts of food or beverage.

Connie Conehead: Merkon, we invite you to consume mass quantities.

b) To use large amounts of any resource.

Suppose that A chooses, aftern returning from numerous expeditions to the shopping mall, to consume mass quantities of cheap beer while watching television, whereas B reads good nonfiction.


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