A performer who pretends to swallow fire.
Burt L. Standish (Gilbert Patten)
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(figuratively) A quarrelsome or belligerent person.
: "But he is a regular fire eater!""He's a bad man—a blamed bad man!" fluttered Danny Griswold."That's right," nodded Lewis Little. "He really wants to fight with swords, I believe."
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(US, historical) An extreme partisan for the South before the US Civil War.
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