animal

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animal

1. slang A person who exhibits very rude, unpleasant, or immoral behaviors or characteristics. Quit belching and farting like that! I don't allow animals in my house, young man. A: "Can you believe the way those people treated that poor woman on the street?" B: "It's terrible. What a bunch of animals."
2. slang Someone who is very dominant and aggressive in a given activity or pursuit. The team's star forward has been an absolute animal on the field today. He is very mild-mannered in public, but he's an animal in the bedroom!
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

animal

n. a male who acts like a beast in terms of manners, cleanliness, or sexual aggressiveness. (see also party animal, study animal.) Stop picking your nose, animal.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See:
  • acclimate to
  • acclimatize (someone or something) to (something)
  • animal
  • animal, vegetable, or mineral
  • animal, vegetable, or mineral?
  • boot or an animal out
  • boot out
  • bring (someone or something) back to life
  • call off
  • chase (someone or something) in(to) (some place)
  • chase in some place
  • confine (someone or something) to (someone or something)
  • confine or an animal to
  • confuse (someone or something) with (someone or something)
  • confuse or an animal with
  • dead in (someone's or something's) tracks
  • dead in or an animal's tracks
  • draw
  • draw (someone or something) out of (someone or something)
  • drive out
  • eat up
  • emotional support animal
  • feed (someone or an animal) with (something)
  • feed (something) to (someone or an animal)
  • fence an animal in
  • fence in
  • fight with (someone or an animal) over (someone or something)
  • fix an animal
  • force (someone or an animal) from (something)
  • force (someone or an animal) out of (something)
  • force or an animal from
  • force out
  • free (someone or oneself) from (someone or something)
  • freeze to death
  • frighten (one) in
  • frighten (one) into (something)
  • frighten into
  • frighten to death
  • harness (an animal) up
  • harness (someone or an animal) to (something)
  • harness an animal up
  • hatch an animal out
  • have (someone or an animal) cornered
  • have a soft spot for (someone or something)
  • have a soft spot for or an animal
  • hound down
  • hound or an animal down
  • kick out
  • lay (one's) hands on (someone or something)
  • lead out of
  • let out
  • let out of
  • lock up
  • mate with
  • mate with an animal
  • no such animal
  • party animal
  • put (an animal) down
  • put (one) out of (something or some place)
  • put (out) on the street
  • put an animal down
  • put an animal out
  • put down
  • put down (an animal)
  • put out
  • put out of
  • put out of the way
  • rope or an animal up
  • rope together
  • rope up
  • saddle an animal up
  • saddle up
  • scare out
  • scare out of
  • scare up
  • smoke out
  • smoke out of
  • starve out of some place
  • study animal
  • take in
  • take or an animal in
  • tempt (someone or an animal) with (something)
  • terrify or an animal out of
  • there is no such animal
  • throw off
  • turn out
  • turn out of
  • winter on (something)
  • worry an animal out of
References in classic literature
The process of learning, which consists in the acquisition of habits, has been much studied in various animals.* For example: you put a hungry animal, say a cat, in a cage which has a door that can be opened by lifting a latch; outside the cage you put food.
* The scientific study of this subject may almost be said to begin with Thorndike's "Animal Intelligence" (Macmillan, 1911).
Then the successful movement always occurs during the animal's attempts, whereas each of the others, on the average, occurs in only half the attempts.
The Analysis of Mind
The Abraham Lincoln, propelled by her wonderful screw, went straight at the animal. The latter allowed it to come within half a cable's length; then, as if disdaining to dive, it took a little turn, and stopped a short distance off.
Several times the animal let us gain upon it.--"We shall catch it!
"Ah!" said he, "that animal goes quicker than the Abraham Lincoln.
20000 Leagues Under The Sea
That large animals require a luxuriant vegetation, has been a general assumption which has passed from one work to another; but I do not hesitate to say that it is completely false, and that it has vitiated the reasoning of geologists on some points of great interest in the ancient history of the world.
Now, if we look to the animals inhabiting these wide plains, we shall find their numbers extraordinarily great, and their bulk immense.
Besides these large animals, every one the least acquainted with the natural history of the Cape, has read of the herds of antelopes, which can be compared only with the flocks of migratory birds.
The Voyage of the Beagle
Ah, mine animals, this only have I learned hitherto, that for man his baddest is necessary for his best,--
Then did his animals prevent him from speaking further.
Thus Spake Zarathustra
In animals it has a more marked effect; for instance, I find in the domestic duck that the bones of the wing weigh less and the bones of the leg more, in proportion to the whole skeleton, than do the same bones in the wild-duck; and I presume that this change may be safely attributed to the domestic duck flying much less, and walking more, than its wild parent.
When we look to the hereditary varieties or races of our domestic animals and plants, and compare them with species closely allied together, we generally perceive in each domestic race, as already remarked, less uniformity of character than in true species.
The Origin of Species
of us, under the easy circumstance of our own weakness, remains another way most easily to express ourselves for the purpose of eliminating from the world the cruelty that is practised by some few of us, for the entertainment of the rest of us, on the trained animals, who, after all, are only lesser animals than we on the round world's surface.
Michael Brother of Jerry
So, as time went on, the Doctor got more and more animals; and the people who came to see him got less and less.
Story of Doctor Dolittle