Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A period of intense or excited feeding, as by sharks.
- n. Excited activity by a group, especially around a focal point: "The media swirled and boiled around the newlyweds in a kind of all-out feeding frenzy” ( James Kaplan).
Wiktionary
- n. A wild, turbulent situation in which multiple sharks or other predatory fish attack a food species simultaneously in competition with each other.
- n. by extension A voracious competition among would-be purchasers, etc. for limited resources.
Examples
“T, he diseases that fell under the domain of the marauding crab were ultimate acts of histologic treason, the body assaulting, battering, raping, murdering itself in a feeding frenzy of rogue cells gone berserk.”
“The recent feeding frenzy in the overseas marketplace has certainly added fuel to the cost-escalation fires.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘feeding frenzy’.
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ENVI - Collocations DEFG
An extract from the "Zold Tolmacs" project, a HU-EN environmental dictionary compiled by Robert Gulyas in 2000.
dactylis glomerata, daily allowance, daily contact zone, daily cycle of tides, daily intake level, daily mortality rate, daily office and ..., daily peak, daily range in va..., daily runoff regu..., daily SO2 levels, dairy cattle and 5213 more...
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eaters (and eating)
carnivore, detritivore, saprophage, omnivore, herbivore, nectarivore, frugivore, oophagy, durophagy, feeding frenzy, trophallaxis, ruminate and 33 more...
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collection o' collocations
Words that are generally seen in each other's company; words that, when mentioned, bring their partners to mind.
innocent bystander, categorically deny, kung-fu grip, picky eater, natural habitat, deep sleep, horse-drawn carriage, ample bosom, perp walk, tea break, wreak havoc, strictly forbidden and 63 more...
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PopCap!
from PopCap Games. not that i spend a lot of time there. uh, no, not at all.
bookworm, lex, zuma, dynomite, feeding frenzy, astropop, alchemy, chuzzle, tip top, moxie, venice
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Fun Phrases & Idioms
dust up, wreak havoc, the willies, cash cow, average joe, drama queen, fancy pants, houston we have a..., in your face, just deserts, kangaroo court, quality time and 78 more...
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animalistic
ant mill, stigmergy, whale fall, animalistic, eusocial, presocial, dog days, neoteny, ruminate, zoolatry, trophallaxis, feeding frenzy and 83 more...
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