Usually means: Performer who swallows fire skillfully.
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We found 21 dictionaries that define the word fire-eater:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. fire-eater: Merriam-Webster
  2. fire-eater: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fire-eater: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. fire-eater, fire-eater: Collins English Dictionary
  5. fire-eater: Vocabulary.com
  6. Fire-eater, fire-eater: Wordnik
  7. fire-eater: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. fire-eater: Wiktionary
  9. fire-eater: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. fire-eater: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. fire-eater: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. fire-eater: Dictionary.com
  13. Fire-Eater: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. fire-eater: Rhymezone
  15. fire-eater: FreeDictionary.org
  16. fire-eater: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. fire-eater: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fire-eater: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fire-eater: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Note: See fire-eaters as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A performer who pretends to swallow fire.
noun:  (figuratively) A quarrelsome or belligerent person.
noun:  (US, historical) An extreme partisan for the South before the US Civil War.
noun:  (US politics) Alternative form of fire-eater (“extreme partisan for the South before the US Civil War”) [A performer who pretends to swallow fire.]

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