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man-eater
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a person who eats human flesh [syn: cannibal , anthropophagus , anthropophagite ] large aggressive shark widespread in warm seas; known to attack humans [syn: great white shark , white shark , man-eating shark , Carcharodon carcharias ]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Man-eater is a colloquial term for an animal that preys upon humans. This does not include scavenging. Although human beings can be attacked by many kinds of animals, man-eaters are those that have incorporated human flesh into their usual diet. Most reported ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ The truth is that real man-eaters, those tigers that deliberately and consistently hunt human prey, are extremely rare.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Man-eater \Man"-eat`er\, n. (Zo["o]l.) One who, or that which, has an appetite for human flesh; specifically, one of certain large sharks (esp. Carcharodon carcharias syn. Carcharodon Rondeleti ); also, a lion or a tiger which has acquired the habit of ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
alt. 1 An animal that has a reputation for eating humans, such as the tiger or shark. 2 A cannibal. 3 (context by extension slang English) A woman with a threatening attitude, often readily taking and discarding male romantic partners. n. 1 An animal that ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also maneater , c.1600, "cannibal," from man (n.) + eater . From 1837 in reference to animals (sharks); 1862 of tigers; 1906 of women. Related: Man-eating .
Usage examples of man-eater.
The addition of a bar, picture window and garish roadside sign depicting a blood-colored man-eater rampant against a green sea was sufficient to transform it into a saloon of the seediest type.
On the first occasion I had been down to visit an isolated village, on the south face of Kala Agar ridge, that had been abandoned the previous year owing to the depredations of the man-eater, and on the way back had taken a cattle track that went over the ridge and down the far side to the forest road, when, approaching a pile of rocks, I suddenly felt there was danger ahead.
This, in fact, is a relatively small total compared to the hundreds which some man-eaters killed before they were themselves removed from the earthly scene.
Don't they say that drinking too much saline water makes a man-eater of a tiger?
It was somehow slightly frightening, like the gambolling of tiger cubs which will soon grow up into man-eaters.