Man-eater

noun, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    An animal that attacks and kills humans for food, such as certain tigers or sharks; any animal that consumes human flesh.

    "And particularly, he knows where to find the primitive substance of the man eater: howsoever evaporate or reduced, as it were, into air or vapour, by sweat or perspiration."

  2. 2
    large aggressive shark widespread in warm seas; known to attack humans wordnet
  3. 3
    A carnivorous plant large enough to consume a human; a man-eating plant.
  4. 4
    a person who eats human flesh wordnet
  5. 5
    A cannibal; a human that eats other humans.

    "For how a race of Man-eaters should spring up in these islands, when none of the nations on the continents from whence they must derive their original are charged with these savage customs, is not easy to conceive[.]"

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  1. 6
    A seductive dangerous woman, often readily taking and discarding male romantic partners. broadly, slang

    ""That only proves she has affairs with them too. She's a man-eater.""

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