feeding frenzy

noun

plural feeding frenzies

1

: a frenzy of eating : a wildly aggressive attack of prey by an animal or group of animals

sharks in a feeding frenzy

Chemoreception seems to be highly developed in this snake and the smell of prey is sufficient to initiate a feeding frenzy.

—Douglas Cable et al.

2

: an intensely and often wildly competitive and aggressive human activity likened to frenzied feeding by predatory animals

They do not relish the journalistic feeding frenzy that will greet the senator's likely appearance on the witness stand.

—U.S. News & World Report

Most of the Westerners who attended the heavily hyped sale knew very little about Soviet art—or the Soviet Union for that matter—but were whipped into a feeding frenzy by the historic excitement of the moment.

—Harlow Robinson

Examples of feeding frenzy in a Sentence

sharks in a feeding frenzy

Recent Examples on the Web

When anti-woke figures on the internet pile on young women, the blogosphere is often able to recognize it as a misogynist feeding frenzy. —Nate Jones, Vulture, 31 July 2025

Battle for Shark Mountain - Off Mozambique’s coast, sharks swarm a hidden peak, hunting Giant Trevally in a once-a-year feeding frenzy. —Monica Mercuri, Forbes.com, 20 July 2025

There was a feeding frenzy on all things Colorado when Deion Sanders arrived and won early. —Richard Deitsch, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2025

In the absence of a culprit, rumor, speculation and conjecture took hold amid a press feeding frenzy. —Stewart Clarke, Deadline, 25 June 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1941, in the meaning defined at sense 1