cannibalism

Meaning

Noun

• The act of eating another of one's own species.
• An act in which one thing consumes or takes over another of the same kind.
• In speech, the occurrence of one word eliding part or all of the next word, because the syllables are the same. For example, "Look, an MIT shirt" for "Look, an MIT T-shirt".

Related

Narrower meaning words

• autocannibalism
• endocannibalism
• exocannibalism
• hypercannibalism
• sexual cannibalism

Origin

• cannibal + -ism