Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who or that which bites; an animal given to biting; a fish apt to take bait.
- n. One who cheats or defrauds; also, formerly, one who deceives by way of joke.
Wiktionary
- n. Agent noun of bite; someone of something who bites.
- n. curling A stone that barely touches the outside of the house.
- n. slang One who plagiarizes.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who, or that which, bites; that which bites often, or is inclined to bite, as a dog or fish.
- n. colloq. One who cheats; a sharper.
WordNet 3.0
- n. someone who bites
Etymologies
- bite + -er (Wiktionary)
Examples
“It sounds like the biter is still on his acid trip from the 60 s.”
Man says he lost part of finger in fight at health-care rally
“When my own son was in preschool, there was a "biter" in the classroom and a group of parents were adamant about trying to get a toddler removed from the school rather than figuring out a way with the teacher and family to change her behavior.”
The Huffington Post: Dr. Irene S. Levine: Friend or Foe: Don't mess with my kid
“He was known as a biter, which would’ve made him awfully hard to adopt!”
“As the chopped and screwed hook stutters along over jacked-straight-from-Inglish minimalism, whispers of "biter" enter the mind.”
“biter", and still every now and then we'd be unable to stop him biting someone.”
“It was a bit of a nail-biter," said Rory Bruer, Sony's head of distribution.”
The Huffington Post: Justin Bieber Vs. Sandler, Aniston: Super Tight Box Office Battle
“I see I've attracted an ankle-biter with a Sonoma County pedigree.”
“Nevada GOP Senate candidate Sharron Angle's confidence remains unbowed, even as many predict that her battle against Harry Reid today will be a nail-biter.”
The Huffington Post: Sharron Angle Sounds Triumphant Tone In Election Day Release
“After a nail-biter of a race, and days of counting absentee and contested ballots, it became clear that Murkowski had no chance of victory and she conceded the race.”
“In the 1980s, Joe Montana served as inspiration for an ankle-biter growing up a San Francisco 49ers fan in northern California.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘biter’.
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Curling, The Roaring Game
Terms and phrases associated with the game and sport of curling.
hack, tee, hogscore, hatch, trigger, stone, end, sweeper, broom, curling sheet, hog line, centre line and 288 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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Bite me
bite, bitewing, biteplate, backbite, checkbite, biter, exhibited, sound bite, snakebite, rat-bite fever, overbite, debited and 32 more...
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Not Yet Colde in it's Grave
Some semblances strange & others nearer, dearer, yet more familiar... . .
ac, amber, ambyre, ancor-rap, and, anda, atol, bana, band, beadu, beadu-weorc, bealu and 446 more...
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Better than Fido or Fluffy
Actual pet names used by people I know
Tweets
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