cannibalism

Plural: cannibalisms

Noun

• the practice of eating the flesh of your own kind
• The act of eating another of one's own species.
• An act in which one thing consumes or takes over another of the same kind.
• In speech, the occurrence of one word eliding part or all of the next word, because the syllables are the same. For example, "Look, an MIT shirt" for "Look, an MIT T-shirt".

Related Words

anthropophagy, anticannibalism, cannibal, cannibalistic, galactic cannibalism, kuru, mad cow disease, prion