Definitions
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- proper noun A
heroic fictional character , raised in thejungle byapes . - noun by extension A strong man.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (sometimes used ironically) a man of great strength and agility (after the hero of a series of novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs)
- noun a man raised by apes who was the hero of a series of novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Etymologies
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Examples
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Anyway, QUEST OF TARZAN has two major plots; the first has Tarzan going up against the white savages the Kuvuru, who steal women from everybody including the Waziri, who are the black tribe Tarzan is cool with.
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I think there were 19 zip lines, and for fun they had what they called a Tarzan swing.
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Burroughs really sits between SF and fantasy (with a touch of proto-superhero in Tarzan), and Moorcock is its own blend of sci-fantasy.
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Tarzan is much more the focal character in this book, rather than a sideline character, so that helps.
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They end up running into a lion, and cannibals, as you do, when lost in Tarzan's Africa.
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The mace has been brutalized at times: Former Conservative minister Michael Heseltine won the nickname Tarzan after swinging it round his head during a heated debate in 1976.
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I worked my way through Burroughs entire Mars, Venus, Earth's Core and Tarzan series, and read the 20 or so stand-alone novels that were also out (The Eternal Savage, in which Lord Greystoke has a bit part but isn't revealed as Tarzan, is still a favorite).
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I worked my way through Burroughs entire Mars, Venus, Earth's Core and Tarzan series, and read the 20 or so stand-alone novels that were also out (The Eternal Savage, in which Lord Greystoke has a bit part but isn't revealed as Tarzan, is still a favorite).
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But while Tarzan is the "feral child" legend writ large, Fu Manchu is not the "evil genius".
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At the mention of his name Tarzan had noted the sickly pallor that overspread the features of the Hun.
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