Definition of "fire-eater" [fire-eater]

• A performer who pretends to swallow fire. (noun)
• A belligerent person or a militant partisan. (noun)

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• "I guess tomorrow night I'll pretend to be a snake charmer or a fire-eater, maybe the girl who rides the ponies backwards."
• "An amazing, inspiring and amusing man of 53 who had begun performing as a teenage accordianist, fire-eater and stilt-walker in a Quebec park in 1983, joined with some twenty acrobatic friends to create a unique assemblage of street artists who first came to Los Angeles next year for a show, not even knowing if they had the fare to return home."
• "Not at all the fire-eater he has turned out to be lately."