Man-eater

Quick meaning: Man-eater is a noun meaning An animal that attacks and kills humans for food, such as certain tigers or sharks; any animal that consumes human flesh.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. A carnivorous plant large enough to consume a human; a man-eating plant.
2. A cannibal; a human that eats other humans.
3. (by extension, slang) A seductive dangerous woman, often readily taking and discarding male romantic partners.

Example Sentences

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

Watch out, boy, she'll chew you up (Oh-oh, here she comes) She's a maneater

Man-eaters are more newsworthy than three-foot-long harmless sharks with tiny teeth.

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.

Word Forms

• man-eaters
• maneater

Synonyms for man-eater

Depending on context, synonyms include enchantress, mantrap, seductress, siren, temptress, vamp.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include cannibal, anthropophagus, maneater, maneating, meateater, carnivore.

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