man-eating
Americanadjective
adjective
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eating human flesh
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informal (of a woman) having many lovers
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
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Surrounded by smelly, ugly, man-eating trolls.
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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
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