fire-eating
1Fire eating — A fire eater is an entertainer, often a street artist or part of a sideshow. The performer places flaming objects into their mouth and extinguishes them. They also practice controlling and transferring the flame.History and hazardsFire eating was …
2fire-eating — ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ adjective : violent, aggressive, belligerent, or highly militant in disposition, bearing, or policy a fire eating radical the fire eating partisans of immediate war a fire eating, hectoring, swashbuckling bully …
3fire-eating — adjective Date: 1819 violent or highly militant in disposition, bearing, or policy < a fire eating radical > …
4fire-eating — See fire eater. * * * …
5Fire breathing — is the act of creating a large flame by spraying, with one s breath, a flammable liquid upon an open flame. The flame is usually held an arm s length away and the spray should be both powerful and misty. This art is said to have originated in… …
6Fire dancing — (also known as, fire twirling, fire spinning, fire performance, or fire manipulation ) is a group of performance arts or disciplines that involve manipulation of objects on fire. Typically these objects have one or more bundles of wicking, which… …
7fire-eater — fire eating, adj., n. /fuyeur ee teuhr/, n. 1. an entertainer who pretends to eat fire. 2. an easily provoked, belligerent person. 3. U.S. Hist. an early and extreme Southern advocate of secession before the Civil War. [1665 75] * * * …
8fire-eater — fire .eater n an entertainer who puts burning sticks into his mouth >fire eating n [U] …
9Fire troop — Articleissues citations missing = December 2007 orphan = December 2007A fire troop is a group of performers who train together to produce shows of fire dancing, fire breathing and fire eating …
10fire-eater — noun a) A performer who pretends to swallow fire. Frustrated in their attempts to change the law, fire eaters turned their efforts to breaking it. b) A quarrelsome or belligerent person. See Also: fire eating …
