English Dictionary

man-eater

noun

An animal that attacks and kills humans for food, such as certain tigers or sharks; any animal that consumes human flesh. / A cannibal; a human that eats other humans.

The man-eater prowled the jungle, searching for its next victim.

意味（1）

An animal that attacks and kills humans for food, such as certain tigers or sharks; any animal that consumes human flesh.

And particularly, he knows where to find the primitive substance of the man eater: howsoever evaporate or reduced, as it were, into air or vapour, by sweat or perspiration.

意味（2）

A cannibal; a human that eats other humans.

For how a race of Man-eaters should spring up in these islands, when none of the nations on the continents from whence they must derive their original are charged with these savage customs, is not easy to conceive[.]

意味（3）

(by extension, slang) A seductive dangerous woman, often readily taking and discarding male romantic partners.

Coordinate term: lady-killer