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.

Word History and Origins

Origin of biter¹

A Middle English word dating back to 1250–1300; bite, -er ¹

Example Sentences

This was until Estevao intervened as the biters of early in the season were painfully bitten back.

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He used to be an infamous biter, but a few sessions at the Zoom Room, an indoor dog training gym, helped wean him off, said Alejandra Gonzalez, Franklin Bean’s owner.

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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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