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man-eating

American  
[man-ee-ting] / ˈmænˌi tɪŋ /

adjective

  1. feeding on or having an appetite for human flesh.

    a man-eating tiger.


man-eating British  

adjective

  1. eating human flesh

  2. informal (of a woman) having many lovers

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Etymology

Origin of man-eating

First recorded in 1600–10

Example Sentences

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The very thought of jungles brought up visions of all kinds of man-eating things like lions, tigers, and gorillas.

From Literature

Surrounded by smelly, ugly, man-eating trolls.

From Literature

Instead it forces Glenda to speak for it, and in contradiction to the message nearly every scene before establishes, by slapping down her neighbor’s feeble excuse for watching a newsmagazine give airtime to the man-eating beast with whom she shared a wall.

From Salon

The film tells the story of a desperate university student applying for a shady part-time job that takes him deep into the woods where he encounters a ravenous, man-eating bear.

From Barron's

I ducked into “A Useful Ghost” on a whim, wondering how it would pair with TIFF’s world premiere of “Dust Bunny,” a nice and nasty Roald Dahl-esque adventure in which a little girl hires Mads Mikkelsen to battle a man-eating monster under her bed.

From Los Angeles Times