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- noun Plural form of
man-eater .
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Examples
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"Sharks have been recognized or identified as man-eaters, that's what people see sharks as," Johnson said.
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At worst, they're man-eaters, gold-digging their way into a man's bank account, walking that fine line between prostitution and intentionally marrying well.
Emily Bracken: 10 Signs She'll Be a High Maintenance Girlfriend Emily Bracken 2011
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Cannibal too bears the traces of civil strife, and it remains a contested term among anthropologists.56 The word derives from the Spanish Canibales, a form of the name Caribes, and dates from the voyage of Columbus, who characterized and perhaps mischaracterized the Caribs, inhabitants of the islands in the Caribbean, as man-eaters.
Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011
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Animal-rights groups have savaged Liam Neeson's hit film "The Grey" for its portrayal of wolves as remorseless man-eaters.
Biting Back at Hollywood's Animal Lies Joe Queenan 2012
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To the westward it was fierce - funny little black kinky-heads, man-eaters the last Jack of them, and the jackpot fat and spilling over with wealth -
THE PRINCESS 2010
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At worst, they're man-eaters, gold-digging their way into a man's bank account, walking that fine line between prostitution and intentionally marrying well.
Emily Bracken: 10 Signs She'll Be a High Maintenance Girlfriend Emily Bracken 2011
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At worst, they're man-eaters, gold-digging their way into a man's bank account, walking that fine line between prostitution and intentionally marrying well.
Emily Bracken: 10 Signs She'll Be a High Maintenance Girlfriend Emily Bracken 2011
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In the grass-thatched barracks nearly two hundred woolly-headed man-eaters slept off the weariness of the day's toil, though several lifted their heads to listen to the curses of one who cursed the white man who never slept.
Chapter 1 2010
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At worst, they're man-eaters, gold-digging their way into a man's bank account, walking that fine line between prostitution and intentionally marrying well.
Emily Bracken: 10 Signs She'll Be a High Maintenance Girlfriend Emily Bracken 2011
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The frizzle-headed man-eaters were loath to leave their fleshpots so long as the harvest of human carcases was plentiful.
THE WHALE TOOTH 2010
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