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useless eaters

useless eaters is the plural of useless eater.

Meaning of useless eater

Noun

useless eater (plural useless eaters)

  1. (Nazism) In the ideology of Nazi Germany, a person with a serious medical problem or disability, seen as requiring assistance from society but offering nothing in return.
    • Gerhard Kretschmar seemed perfectly to fit Hitler's idea of a “useless eater,” and when the KdF men informed him of the case, he leapt into action, summoning his personal physician, Karl Brandt, and ordering him to travel immediately to Leipzig to investigate.2021, Charlie English, The Gallery of Miracles and Madness: Insanity, Modernism, and Hitler's War on Art, Random House, →ISBN, page 174

Questions about useless eaters

What is useless eaters the plural of?
Useless eaters is the plural of useless eater.

Words near useless eaters in the dictionary

  1. useless as tits on a boar hog
  2. useless as tits on a bull
  3. useless class
  4. useless classes
  5. useless eater
  6. useless eaters
  7. useless lesbian
  8. useless lesbians
  9. uselesser
  10. uselessest
  11. uselessly

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