NOUN
- a belligerent grouch
- a member of a fire department who tries to extinguish fires
- a performer who pretends to swallow fire
How To Use fire-eater In A Sentence
- Hey, d' you hear about the fire-eater who couldn't go anywhere without meeting an old flame?
- The evening begins with champagne and includes a four-course banquet, unlimited drinks and entertainment from minstrels, jesters and fire-eaters.
- The point is that the president is getting a team together of young fire-eaters that can work sixteen hour days up to and through the election.
- While my senses succumbed to the Indian fire-eaters, I raced to watch the rickshaws and road shows.
- All around me are jugglers and fortune-tellers, dancers and fire-eaters, and every few steps is another stall with a vendor eager to squeeze fresh orange juice.
- The "gallant failure" had been the biggest botch since the Kabul Retreat, thanks to the idiot Maximilian, who was damned if he'd be rescued, so there, and I'd come off by the skin of my chattering teeth and the good offices of that gorgeous little fire-eater, Princess Aggie Salm-Salm, and Jesus Montero's gang of unwashed bandits who were on hand only because Jesus thought I knew where Montezuma's treasure was cached, more fool he. Watershed
- Whether we know it or not, the former fire-eater is now not just Ireland's best known actor, he's one of its biggest fans.
- Everywhere amazing spectacles were being performed, as crowds gathered and applauded the snake charmers, coal-walkers, and fire-eaters.
- An amazing, inspiring and amusing man of 53 who had begun performing as a teenage accordianist, fire-eater and stilt-walker in a Quebec park in 1983, joined with some twenty acrobatic friends to create a unique assemblage of street artists who first came to Los Angeles next year for a show, not even knowing if they had the fare to return home. Jay Weston: Cirque du Soleil's Ovo Drove Me Buggy... In a Nice Way
- Fire-eaters, escapologists and stilt walkers will all be on hand to provide entertainment.