Opportunivore

Quick meaning: Opportunivore is a noun meaning A person who subsists on still-edible food that has been or was going to be discarded.

Meaning

A person who subsists on still-edible food that has been or was going to be discarded.

More Meanings

1. One who will generally eat whatever is available, having a diet that excludes few foods.
2. A person who actively seeks or takes advantage of opportunities.

Example Sentences

Their secret? Like us, they [coyotes] survive by adapting: they’re opportunivores, feeding on everything from insects to garbage to deer; […]

Those were heady times for a young, omnivorous reporter: I handled everything from stakeouts to regional front-page features, writing on topics from nuclear power to heroin addiction. I call myself an "opportunivore" because I’m still drawn to a wide range of stories.

An estimated $75 billion worth of food is thrown out yearly in America, and it doesn’t take a great leap of logic to connect the desire to live sustainably with the almost limitless supply of free food that overflows the nation’s dumpsters. Thus the opportunivore can forage either overtly or covertly, by asking up front or diving out back.

Word Forms

• opportunivores

Synonyms for opportunivore

Depending on context, synonyms include freegan, flexitarian, omnivore, opportunist.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include saprophage, smell-feast, prey, scrounger, scavvy, nosher.

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