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Meaning of feeding frenzy in English. A situation in which people try to get as much as possible of something, for example information about an event, especially in an unpleasant way: Her sudden death sparked off a feeding frenzy in the media. COMMON A feeding frenzy is a situation in which a lot of people become very excited about an event and try to get as much information about it or get as much advantage from it as they can, often in an unpleasant way. What the couple hadn't expected in their relationship was the feeding frenzy of publicity that has followed their every move.

In its original form recorded in the early 1960s, it refers to the voracious feeding habits of sharks. From the late 1970s onward it came into use in its more general sense which means furious commercial competition.
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Usually the curse that follows after a group of friends have had a session of blazing and hit an all time high of munching, thus it turns into an orgy of eating.
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Any gathering of 3 or more feedbags in one area at the same time.
At lunch today, there was a feeding frenzy going on in the cafeteria.

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a scene of frantic competition or unrestrainedgreed (from a a situation where several sharks or other predatory fish attempt to catch a single prey animal at once)
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Feeding Frenzy

1. A slang term for intense buying. This may occur at a retail level or it may refer to a bullishmarket for securities.
2. During the 1980s, the custom among certain bond traders on Wall Street to order far more takeout food than they could eat. The point of the feeding frenzies was to see which trader could display the most conspicuous consumption. Feeding frenzies were exposed in the book Liar's Poker, which describes the author's experience as a bond trader on Wall Street in the 1980s.

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