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superpredator

The English word “superpredator” has 2 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A youth who repeatedly commits violent crimes, said to be a result of being raised without morals.
  2. A predator that eats other predators.

Etymology

From super- + predator. Sociology sense coined by American political scientist John DiIulio in 1995.

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