(figuratively) A quarrelsome or belligerent person.
"But he is a regular fire eater!"
"He's a bad man—a blamed bad man!" fluttered Danny Griswold.
"That's right," nodded Lewis Little. "He really wants to fight with swords, I believe."
(US, historical) An extreme partisan for the South before the US Civil War.
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