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superpredators

superpredators is the plural of superpredator.

Meaning of superpredator

Noun

superpredator (plural superpredators)

  1. A youth who repeatedly commits violent crimes, said to be a result of being raised without morals.
    • In 1996 [DiIulio] authored an incendiary warning of a "rising tide of juvenile superpredators" [and in the National Review] "[a]ll that's left of the black community in […] urban America is deviant, delinquent, and criminal adults[.]"2001 February 9, Vincent Schiraldi, “DiIulio needs more scrutiny”, in Star News
  2. A predator that eats other predators.
    Synonyms:
    hyperpredator

Questions about superpredators

What is superpredators the plural of?
Superpredators is the plural of superpredator.

Words near superpredators in the dictionary

  1. superprecise
  2. superprecision
  3. superprecocial
  4. superprecociality
  5. superpredator
  6. superpredators
  7. superpredicate
  8. superpredicates
  9. superpremium
  10. superpremiums
  11. superpresence

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