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biter

[ bahy-ter ]

noun

  1. a person or animal that bites, especially habitually or viciously:

    That dog is a biter.

  2. Chiefly Chesapeake Bay. the larger claw of a crab.
  3. Obsolete. a cheat; swindler; fraud.


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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of biter1

A Middle English word dating back to 1250–1300; bite, -er 1
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"Not that the economy wasn't relevant in those times, but there were other huge things going on," he said, describing the current race as a "nail biter".

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Vector control officials in Southern California are starting to release sterilized male mosquitoes to combat the summertime onslaught of ankle biters.

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“It was a nail biter,” says Jamie Rankin, an astrophysicist at Princeton University and Voyager’s deputy project scientist.

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Orange County expects to release its “ankle biter fighters,” as Brannon called them, in Mission Viejo this fall or next spring.

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Having in mind that the toe biter is an iconic species accompanied by creepy stories concerning its encounters with humans, the authors assume that it is unlikely that it had gone unnoticed for too long.

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