From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishman-eaterˈman-eater noun [countable] 1 HBAa wild animal that kills and eats people2 SYa woman who people think is frightening because she has many sexual partners – used humorously —man-eating adjective a man-eating shark
Examples from the Corpus
man-eater• The truth is that real man-eaters, those tigers that deliberately and consistently hunt human prey, are extremely rare. 