man-eater
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But new guidelines aside, Indian officials and wildlife experts continue to use the term man-eater.
From Salon ● May 18, 2022
The next day, as dynamite was dropped into the creek in hopes of raising Lester's body, Matawan's acting mayor offered a $100 reward for anyone who "kills the man-eater."
From US News ● Jul. 6, 2016
In Hawaii the term niuhi, meaning "man-eater", was used in native songs thought to refer to tiger sharks.
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2015
Actually, Ben Kingsley plays that version of Damian Hale, a financial predator who plies Manhattan’s asphalt seas with the dead eyes of a man-eater.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 9, 2015
Boots was confused in people’s minds with Brute, the most ferocious man-eater ever seen in the circus.
From "Tiger, Tiger" by Lynne Reid Banks
Sharks still loom large in the public imagination as deadly man-eaters, thanks to the 1975 blockbuster Jaws, in which a great white shark menaced swimmers off the coast of Massachusetts.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2023
The Atlantic risks getting addicted to these yarns because of their popularity among non-Californians, in the same sense that the first taste of human blood has been reputed to turn African lions into incorrigible man-eaters.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 14, 2022
After Avni's death, the National Tiger Conservation Authority prepared a new report, which stated that problematic animals should be referred to as "dangerous to human life" and not "man-eaters."
From Salon ● May 18, 2022
Scientists had been searching for years for a method or chemical that repelled the man-eaters, but nothing they tried seemed to work.
From Washington Post ● May 2, 2022
It was somehow slightly frightening, like the gamboling of tiger cubs which will soon grow up into man-eaters.
From "1984" by George Orwell
