0 a situation in which people try to get as much as possible of something, for example information about an event, especially in an unpleasant way: --
1 a condition of great excitement and confusion when an animal hunts and eats another animal --
2 a fierce competition between people who all want the same thing: --
3 a situation where there is a lot of competition to buy or get something: --
For example, a large school of fish can cause nearby sharks, such as the lemon shark, to enter into a feeding frenzy.
Residents woke yesterday to an awful stench and the sight of hundreds of seagulls converging on the area in a feeding frenzy.
Their sheer numbers create a feeding frenzy along the coastline.
Groups often form when individuals converge on a food source, whereupon a feeding frenzy may occur.
He was very much a victim of shoddy treatment and of a tawdry media feeding frenzy of the kind that we have had to endure over the past few days.
That should not be turned into yet another media circus and yet another feeding frenzy.
In many cases genuine concerns are blown out of proportion as the media indulge in a feeding frenzy, seldom letting the facts get in the way of a good story.
That report gives an idea of the feeding frenzy that can develop when issues like this emerge— and are debated—in the way that they have over the last month.
