Definition of "cannibals" [cannibals]

• Plural form of cannibal. (noun)

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• "Miller did not find that they were cannibals toward their own kind; they were “cannibals” only in the sense of eating the flesh of men."
• "This ended his cruise among the Caribbean Islands, the inhabitants of which he described as cannibals, and the most warlike people hitherto met with."
• "Tambo! shrieked the cannibals from the trees, appalled at so awful a desecration, as they saw their chief tumbled into the tub and the sacred dirt rubbed and soused from his body."