Date:    Fri, 19 Jun 1998 10:36:15 -0700
<br>From:    Yongwei Gao <951208[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]FUDAN.EDU.CN>
<br>Subject: meat-eater & qualifer
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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:
<br>But the stories from the 30th Precinct--and those told last year to an
<br>investigative commission--are about a new breed of  meat-eaters --police
<br>officers who have become indistinguishable from the criminals they were
<br>supposed to be catching. (5/19/94 WP A1)
<br>2. Qualifier, so far as I know from all the dictionaries available,
<br>means a person who qualifies. But I have collected several citations in
<br>which it means a match (of course, a qualifying one). Has any new-word
<br>dictionary recorded it?           And I also find its abbreviated form
<br>--"qualie". Example: And this is the world s seventy-ninth-best player,
<br>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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