feeding frenzy

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feeding frenzy

1. Lit. [of sharks] a vicious, competitive feeding attack on prey animals. One of the sharks was fatally bitten during a feeding frenzy amongst his own kind.

2. Fig. a vicious attack on someone or something. It wasn't an office argument, it was a feeding frenzy led by the head accountant!

See also: feed, frenzy

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CAPTION(S): THE TWO SISTERS Maliyah, left, and Nariyah HAPPY MEAL It's a frantic feeding frenzy MUNCH TIME. EIGHT UP, KIDS! Octuplets get ready for big tuck-in by The Mirror (London, England) When flowering has finished, leave the seedheads standing as the birds will enjoy a feeding frenzy on the seeds in the middle of the flowers. Best of the bunch by The Journal (Newcastle, England) When flowering has finished, leave the seedheads standing as the birds will enjoy a feeding frenzy. Best of the bunch by Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England)			feast on feast or famine feather feather in cap feather nest feather own nest feature feature as feature in fed fed up federal feed Feed a cold and starve a fever feed a line feed back into feed back to feed face feed into feed off feed on feed the kitty feed to feed to the lions feed with feeding frenzy feel feel a draft feel a glow of happiness feel around feel at home feel blue feel fit feel for feel free feel gorge rise feel guilty feel hard done-by feel hot and cold feel in bones feel it beneath feel like feel like a million feel like a new person feel like doing feel oats feel of feel on top of the world feel out feel out of things feel pinched			Feeding Area Feeding at Keyboard feeding back feeding back feeding back feeding back Feeding behavior Feeding behavior Feeding behaviors Feeding behaviors Feeding behaviour Feeding behaviour Feeding behaviour Feeding behaviours Feeding behaviours feeding bottle feeding bottles feeding center feeding center feeding center feeding center feeding chair Feeding difficulties Feeding difficulties Feeding difficulties feeding disorder feeding disorder feeding disorder feeding disorder feeding frenzies feeding frenzy feeding gastrostomy feeding ground feeding ground Feeding His Lambs Ministries Canada Feeding Infants and Toddlers Study feeding mechanism Feeding Minds, Fighting Hunger feeding module feeding module Feeding of Farm Animals feeding off feeding off feeding off feeding off feeding on feeding on feeding on feeding on feeding pattern feeding pattern feeding procedures feeding procedures feeding prosthesis feeding prosthesis feeding prosthesis feeding rod Feeding Standard Feeding the multitude feeding through feeding through

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