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cannibal

/kan-uh-buhl/US // ˈkæn ə bəl //UK // (ˈkænɪbəl) //

食人族,食人者,食人魔,吃人的

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person who eats human flesh, especially for magical or religious purposes, as among certain tribal peoples.
    • : any animal that eats its own kind.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : pertaining to or characteristic of a cannibal.
    • : given to cannibalism.

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Examples

  • To me it is a ridiculous euphemism, the way you might refer to cannibals as “practitioners of nontraditional culinary adventuresomeness.”

  • Imagine if, for example after the world ends, it’s a zombie apocalypse in one area, Mad Max bikers in another region, cannibal cult in another, and so on.

  • Amirpour's next project is one she bills as a “Texas cannibal love story.”

  • Fellow cops at the 26th Precinct in upper Manhattan wondered if they really had been working with a cannibal.

  • The headline: "Three Englishmen Saved From Boiling Pot By Cannibal Chief, Who Was Friend at Oxford."

  • And cruder devices certainly deepen the effect of a name; Caliban is a rough anagram of “cannibal,” and Cassio contains an “ass.”

  • The Cannibal Cop may end up being saved by his own sick and shameful words.

  • They admit that a Feejee cannibal has just the same "mighty and transcendent soul" that they themselves have.

  • I knew that an Irishman could become anything from a poet to a policeman, but I never heard of one becoming a cannibal before.

  • The Prince of Taranto, while speaking and acting like a cannibal, was following the inspiration of an atrocious policy.

  • The dark type, which is black, is of a very low order, and in some of the islands still retains its cannibal habits.

  • She roasted some meat, a cannibal smelt it, and went to the cave, but found the door fastened.