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

Some said that even their children are asking to eat vegetables now in this dinosaur-style feeding frenzy fashion. —Amy McGorry, FOXNews.com, 7 May 2025

Since Trump doesn’t like to bow to media feeding frenzies, Hegseth is likely to survive and get another bite of the apple. —The Editors, National Review, 28 Apr. 2025

And with Norman in the fold, the feeding frenzy is only beginning. —Mike Dojc, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2025

As the fish return to spawn in the rivers and streams where they were hatched, bottlenecks like dams stir up pinniped feeding frenzies. —Cheryl Katz, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 May 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1941, in the meaning defined at sense 1