plural feeding frenzies
Definition of feeding frenzy
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
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The first known use of feeding frenzy was in 1941
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