Definition of "salivate" []

• To secrete or produce saliva. (verb-intransitive)
• Informal To be full of desire or eagerness for something: salivated at the idea of winning the lottery. (verb-intransitive)
• To produce excessive salivation in. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Thus if the spoils of desktop browser wars was the soul of the Internet, then the coming war will be for the soft, pliant heart of the social web; it all comes down to distribution and sticky eyeballs synapsed to clicky-clicky fingers over which advertisers and their kin salivate and jerk off."
• "“This expat Texan lovingly describes her quest to find and re-create the food she loves so much — BBQ, fried chicken, and Tex-Mex … and her post on classic Tex-Mex tacos made me salivate, which is what a good food blog should do.” —"
• "Studio execs 'salivate' as the $15,000 horror film makes $7m on its opening weekend"