Definitions for man-eater

man-eater man-eat·er

Spelling: [man-ee-ter]
IPA: /ˈmænˌi tər/

Man-Eater is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 242 anagrams from letters in man-eater (-aaeemnrt).

Definitions for man-eater

noun

  1. an animal, especially a tiger or lion, that eats or is said to eat human flesh.
  2. man-eating shark.
  3. a cannibal.
  4. Slang. femme fatale.

Origin of man-eater

First recorded in 1590-1600

Examples for man-eater

Had his men become frightened by tales of the man-eater, and fled?

No more than our old war dog Deber-Trud the man-eater did I drop my prey.

The lion, in a few days, had proved not only to be a man-eater, but a man-hunter.

You might interest a man-eater by initiating him, but would you destroy his appetite?

There was his machete, to be sure, but what was this against the claws of a man-eater?

"I'll bet that tiger isn't as great a man-eater as old Witham," he said.

And thus the man-eater was shut in with the three sleeping men.

The man-eater is dead—stabbed through the heart—and Conan is gone!'

Six long days they were on the trail, and the man-eater did not trouble them again.

She was not a man-eater, perhaps, but she was nearly romance-mad.

Word Value for man-eater
Scrable

5

Words with friends

7

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