Human meat

can·ni·bal (k

-b

1. A person who eats the flesh of other humans.

2. An animal that feeds on others of its own kind.

[From Spanish Caníbalis, name (as recorded by Christopher Columbus) of the allegedly cannibalistic Caribs of Cuba and Haiti, from earlier Carib karibna, person, Carib.]

canni·bal·ism n.

canni·bal·istic adj.

cannibalism [ˈkænɪbəˌlɪzəm]

1. the act of eating human flesh or the flesh of one's own kind

2. savage and inhuman cruelty

cannibalistic adj

cannibalistically adv

Cannibalism

androphagy

the consumption of human flesh; cannibalism. — androphagous, adj.

anthropophagism, anthropophagy

the consumption of human flesh; cannibalism. — anthropophagous, adj.

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Noun

cannibalism - the practice of eating the flesh of your own kind

practice, pattern - a customary way of operation or behavior; "it is their practice to give annual raises"; "they changed their dietary pattern"

anthropophagy - human cannibalism; the eating of human flesh

Translations

cannibalism [ˈkænɪbəlɪzəm] N → canibalismo m

cannibalism [ˈkænɪbəlɪzəm] n → cannibalisme m, anthropophagie f

cannibalism

n (of people) → Kannibalismus m, → Menschenfresserei f

cannibalism [ˈkænɪb/əlɪz/əm] n → cannibalismo

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That she was employed as an escort - laughably considered to be the respectable end of the human meat market - is not the point: however she disguises the source of her pin-money, it is little different from a streetcorner transaction.

Sordid story of vice does not ring a Belle by Birmingham Mail (England)

In the week the Chinese rejected hundreds of tonnes of Irish pigmeat as not fit for human consumption, we took in a consignment of Chinese human meat for our eyes to feast upon.

Disturbing these bodies is deeply disturbing by The Mirror (London, England)

A He) said that human meat was in fact delicious," an unnamed neighbour was quoted as saying, recounting comments A He allegedly made while watching a film depicting people being killed in battle.

Girl's dismembered body found in fridge in China: report by AFP / AFP Asian Edition

human chorionic gonadotrophin

human chorionic gonadotropin