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fire eating

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fire-eat⋅er

[fahyuhr-ee-ter]
–noun
1. an entertainer who pretends to eat fire.
2. an easily provoked, belligerent person.
3. U.S. History. an early and extreme Southern advocate of secession before the Civil War.

Origin:
1665–75


fire-eating, adjective, noun
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