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fire-eaters

fire-eaters is the plural of fire-eater.

Meaning of fire-eater

Noun

fire-eater (plural fire-eaters)

  1. A performer who pretends to swallow fire.
    Synonyms:
    firebreather, fire-breather, fire breather
  2. (figuratively) A quarrelsome or belligerent person.
    • "But he is a regular fire eater!"
      "He's a bad man—a blamed bad man!" fluttered Danny Griswold.
      "That's right," nodded Lewis Little. "He really wants to fight with swords, I believe."Burt L. Standish (Gilbert Patten)
  3. (US, historical) An extreme partisan for the South before the US Civil War.
    • Frustrated in their attempts to change the law, fire-eaters turned their efforts to breaking it.1988, James McPherson, Battle Cry for Freedom, Oxford, published 2003, page 103

Noun capitalized: Fire-Eaters

Fire-Eaters

  1. (plural) plural of Fire-Eater

Questions about fire-eaters

What is fire-eaters the plural of?
Fire-eaters is the plural of fire-eater.
What part of speech is fire-eaters?
Fire-eaters is a noun.

Words near fire-eaters in the dictionary

  1. fire-cures
  2. fire-curing
  3. fire-devil
  4. fire-devils
  5. fire-eater
  6. fire-eaters
  7. fire-escape knot
  8. fire-escape knots
  9. fire-extinguisher
  10. fire-extinguishers
  11. fire-eye

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