吃

to eat / to consume / to eat at (a cafeteria etc) / to eradicate / to destroy / to absorb / to suffer / to stammer (Taiwan pr. for this sense is [ji2])

variant of 吃[chi1]

to beg

mouth / classifier for things with mouths (people, domestic animals, cannons, wells etc) / classifier for bites or mouthfuls

to feel jealous

to be unable to tolerate or endure / to find sth difficult to manage

to eat without paying / to eat for free

popular / in demand / well regarded

to face legal action / to get sued

to fall flat on one's face (vulgar)

(coll.) snack food

lit. the mountain dweller lives off the mountain, the shore dweller lives off the sea (idiom) / fig. to make the best use of local resources / to exploit one's position to advance oneself / to find one's niche / to live off the land

(of a villain) to do the dirty on another villain