Meaning of Pac-Man | Babel Free

Definitions

Anything that consumes indiscriminately.

figuratively, slang

Examples

“"Medicaid is becoming the Pac-Man of state government, eating up every dollar," remarked one official.”

“Chlorine acts like a Pac-Man of the high atmosphere, gobbling one ozone molecule after another and then being regenerated to gobble again.”

“The ironic deconstruction of all meaningful discourse, including normative discourse, says Gergen, "is like a Pac-Man of social pattern, gobbling all that stands in its path."”

“Like the Pac-Man of garbage, Browning-Ferris Industries (BFI) is gobbling up smaller waste disposal firms — 113 in 1994 alone — as that industry becomes increasingly consolidated.”

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