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Tarzan-like

Tarzan-like adjective: resembling the fictional character Tarzan.

Adjective

Tarzan-like (comparative more Tarzan-like, superlative most Tarzan-like)

  1. Resembling the fictional character Tarzan.
    • His massive chest is covered with a fine growth of hair that gives him a Tarzan-like appearance.1922 June 20, The Sydney Sportsman, page 8, column 1
    • But also, there were parts that looked very dubious indeed—long, whirling discharges of words, unabsorbed in the novel, unrelated to the proper business of fiction, badly if not altogether unacceptable writing, raw gobs of emotion, aimless and quite meaningless jabber, claptrap, belches, grunts...1936 April 25, Bernard DeVoto, “Genius Is Not Enough”, in Saturday Review of Literature, New York, page 3

Forms of Tarzan-like

comparativemore Tarzan-like
superlativemost Tarzan-like

Origin of Tarzan-like

From Tarzan + -like.

Questions about Tarzan-like

What does Tarzan-like mean?
Tarzan-like means resembling the fictional character Tarzan.
What part of speech is Tarzan-like?
Tarzan-like is an adjective.

Words near Tarzan-like in the dictionary

  1. Tarzan swings
  2. Tarzan yell
  3. Tarzan yells
  4. Tarzan yodel
  5. Tarzan yodels
  6. Tarzan-like
  7. Tarzan-speak
  8. Tarzana
  9. Tarzaned
  10. Tarzanese
  11. Tarzanesque

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