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carnivore

Definition

  • noun: an animal that eats meat
  • noun: any of an order (Carnivora) of typically flesh-eating mammals that includes dogs, foxes, bears, raccoons, and cats
  • sometimes used humorously to refer to people who eat meat
  • synonyms: brillat-savarin, chiroptera, lagomorpha

Examples

  • Many of my friends are vegetarians, but I'm a 'carnivore'.

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) You make weird faces, honey. - Do you have to read at the table? - Uh-huh. Yeah. Smaller bites, Dash. Yikes! Bob, could you help the carnivore cut his meat. Dash, you have something you wanna tell your father about school? - Well, we dissected a frog. - Dash got sent to the office again. (..)
    2004 The Incredibles