NOUN
- large aggressive shark widespread in warm seas; known to attack humans
- a person who eats human flesh
How To Use man-eater In A Sentence
- The frizzle-headed man-eaters were loath to leave their fleshpots so long as the harvest of human carcases was plentiful. THE WHALE TOOTH
- Instead, the song's about a rock 'n' roll archetype - the wild heartbreaker, the man-eater, the endearing groupie - and it never manages to transcend the blandly conceptual.
- In the last few years, divers like Winram have been debunking the sinister reputation of the so-called man-eater. News - latimes.com
- I graduated from high school as the ultimate man-eater. The Lo-Down
- His friend who took this photo, William Winram, calls himself a "Shark Publicist" who wants to show that humans' natural fear of the so-called man-eater has been blown way out of proportion. News - latimes.com
- Until scientific evidence became available, the most famous tales centred invariably around man-eaters, narrated by the shikari or hunter-turned-conservationist.
- The man-eater lurked in a wood that was hard by the sheep-run. Young Folks Treasury, Volume 2 (of 12)
- A man-eater, brilliant and bitter, the size of a small elephant. NEVERWHERE
- We'd have heard if people were being savaged by vulpine man-eaters.
- Jake had always called Thelma Pearl a man-eater and maybe she was, but seated here so prim and proper at the table, she seemed small, nervous, frightened, embarrassed, vulnerable. Come Again No More
