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fire eatings

fire eatings is the plural of fire eating.

Meaning of fire eating

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.

Questions about fire eatings

What is fire eatings the plural of?
Fire eatings is the plural of fire eating.

Words near fire eatings in the dictionary

  1. fire drill
  2. fire drills
  3. fire eater
  4. fire eaters
  5. fire eating
  6. fire eatings
  7. fire eel
  8. fire engine
  9. fire engine red
  10. fire engine reds
  11. fire engines

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