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Definition of man-eating in English: man-eatingadjective ˈmaniːtɪŋ 1Denoting an animal that has a propensity for killing and eating humans. Example sentencesExamples - You've got flesh-eating, man-eating dinosaurs basically interacting with children.
- Suddenly they are confronted by a man-eating lion.
- For the good folk of Fly Creek, the Devil has appeared in the shape of man-eating earthworms.
- Nearly everyone has an odd fantasy about "man-eating beasts."
- I wonder how he would explain the proliferation today of man-eating rats.
- They should not just be harvesting the man-eating crocodiles without sensitizing communities on their potential to contribute positively to tourism.
- I guess I'd like my man-eating python a bit earlier in the episode.
- A village in the north of India has been plagued by a man-eating Bengal tiger.
- The short film is a funny spoof substituting killer bread for man-eating zombies.
- A disturbed little boy wanders out into the woods and finds a family of man-eating troglodytes trapped in a pit.
2informal Denoting a dominant woman who has many sexual partners. she had often been cast as a man-eating seductress Example sentencesExamples - She plays the man-eating vamp stereotype to the hilt.
- Once, I dressed up as a man-eating hooker from outer space.
- Her truly loud, tarty, and man-eating Lady Capulet was developing nicely.
- She managed to steal most of the honors, turning in a cracking performance as the man-eating Dorien.
- We see in her a formidable, man-eating, middle-aged woman.
- Just when her interest in Mark begins to emerge, he hooks up with the man-eating lawyer who is determined to marry him.
- Desperate to leave his past behind—especially man-eating Jackie—he has decided to start a new life with his teenage daughter.
- She stars as a man-eating singleton who finally meets the guy who sets her heart aflutter, so she takes a weekend road trip to track him down.
- Their 25-year marriage suffers when James is seduced by his wife's man-eating young friend, a photographer.
- As the man-eating Diane, she displays impeccable comic timing.
Definition of man-eating in US English: man-eatingadjectiveˈman ˌēdiNG 1Denoting an animal that has a propensity for killing and eating humans. Example sentencesExamples - A village in the north of India has been plagued by a man-eating Bengal tiger.
- A disturbed little boy wanders out into the woods and finds a family of man-eating troglodytes trapped in a pit.
- You've got flesh-eating, man-eating dinosaurs basically interacting with children.
- For the good folk of Fly Creek, the Devil has appeared in the shape of man-eating earthworms.
- Nearly everyone has an odd fantasy about "man-eating beasts."
- I guess I'd like my man-eating python a bit earlier in the episode.
- The short film is a funny spoof substituting killer bread for man-eating zombies.
- They should not just be harvesting the man-eating crocodiles without sensitizing communities on their potential to contribute positively to tourism.
- I wonder how he would explain the proliferation today of man-eating rats.
- Suddenly they are confronted by a man-eating lion.
2informal Denoting a dominant woman who has many sexual partners. she had often been cast as a man-eating seductress Example sentencesExamples - Once, I dressed up as a man-eating hooker from outer space.
- Just when her interest in Mark begins to emerge, he hooks up with the man-eating lawyer who is determined to marry him.
- As the man-eating Diane, she displays impeccable comic timing.
- Her truly loud, tarty, and man-eating Lady Capulet was developing nicely.
- She stars as a man-eating singleton who finally meets the guy who sets her heart aflutter, so she takes a weekend road trip to track him down.
- Desperate to leave his past behind—especially man-eating Jackie—he has decided to start a new life with his teenage daughter.
- She managed to steal most of the honors, turning in a cracking performance as the man-eating Dorien.
- She plays the man-eating vamp stereotype to the hilt.
- We see in her a formidable, man-eating, middle-aged woman.
- Their 25-year marriage suffers when James is seduced by his wife's man-eating young friend, a photographer.
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