Date:    Fri, 19 Jun 1998 10:53:42 +0900
<br>From:    Gao Yongwei <951208[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]FUDAN.EDU.CN>
<br>Subject: Meat-eater & qualifier
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<br>Dear all,
<br>
<br>My questions today are:
<br>1. Has anybody ever seen the use of "meat-eater" before? Example: But the storie
<br>s from the 30th Precinct--and those told last year to an investigative commissio
<br>n--are about a new breed of "eat-eaters"--police
<br>officers who have become indistinguishable from the criminals they were supposed
<br> to be catching. (5/19/94 WP A1)
<br>2. Qualifier, so far as I know from all the dictionaries available, means a pers
<br>on who qualifies. But I have collected several citations in which it means a mat
<br>ch (of course, a qualifying one). Has any new-word dictionary recorded it?
<br>And I have also found its abbreviated form "qualie". Example: And this is the world's seventy-ninth-best player, one who has to play the Montreal qualies. (Esquire 7/96 p65)
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<br>Thanks for your help!
<br>
<br>Yongwei Gao
<br>Fudan University,
<br>Shanghai, China
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