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fire eating

fire eating noun: the act of putting fire into one's mouth and extinguishing it, as an entertaining performance.

Noun

fire eating (countable and uncountable, plural fire eatings)

  1. The act of putting fire into one's mouth and extinguishing it, as an entertaining performance.
  2. (figuratively) quarrelsome or belligerent.
  3. (US, historical) extremely partisan for the South before the US Civil War.

Forms of fire eating

pluralfire eatings

Questions about fire eating

What does fire eating mean?
Fire eating means the act of putting fire into one's mouth and extinguishing it, as an entertaining performance.
What part of speech is fire eating?
Fire eating is a noun.
What is the plural of fire eating?
The plural of fire eating is fire eatings.

Words near fire eating in the dictionary

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  10. fire engine red
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