feeding frenzy

noun

plural feeding frenzies

1

: a frenzy of eating : a wildly aggressive attack of prey by an animal or group of animals

sharks in a feeding frenzy

Chemoreception seems to be highly developed in this snake and the smell of prey is sufficient to initiate a feeding frenzy.

—Douglas Cable et al.

2

: an intensely and often wildly competitive and aggressive human activity likened to frenzied feeding by predatory animals

They do not relish the journalistic feeding frenzy that will greet the senator's likely appearance on the witness stand.

—U.S. News & World Report

Most of the Westerners who attended the heavily hyped sale knew very little about Soviet art—or the Soviet Union for that matter—but were whipped into a feeding frenzy by the historic excitement of the moment.

—Harlow Robinson

Examples of feeding frenzy in a Sentence

sharks in a feeding frenzy

Recent Examples on the Web

Who doesn’t like a good feeding frenzy now and then? —Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2024

Between nerve-wracking chases and gruesome feeding frenzies, Bong skewers everything from American imperialism to environmental negligence. —Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 17 Sep. 2024

That $5 trillion pool of capital globally has touched off a feeding frenzy on Wall Street to help family offices manage their money. —Robert Frank, CNBC, 5 Sep. 2024

So there's a feeding frenzy on some of this opportunity to come to market. —Ryan Lawler, Axios, 11 July 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1941, in the meaning defined at sense 1