Definition of "trenchermen" []

• Plural form of trencherman. (noun)

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• "Unfortunately for said member and his fellow trenchermen, the age of deference is, as they themselves are fond of telling us, well and truly over."
• "The waiters are supposed to work quietly during performances but this was a hungry bunch of trenchermen who made a racket when they ate, gorging on sirloins, barbecued ribs, lobster tails, spaghetti and chicken livers, and more or less thrashing their way through a Mister Kelly specialty, the green goddess salad."
• "America has the most-regulated food in the developed world, yet it also has the fattest people in the world — with the exception of the hearty trenchermen of Nauru and a few other dots in the Pacific."