粵

人jan4肉juk6

jan4 juk6ren2rou4rén ròu

English

  1. to crowdsource information about sb or sth (typically as a form of vigilantism resulting in doxing) (abbr. for 人肉搜索[ren2 rou4 sou1 suo3])
  2. human flesh [written and colloquial]
  3. human flesh
  4. human-
  5. human (used attributively, as in 人肉盾牌[ren2 rou4 dun4 pai2], human shield)

粵語 — Cantonese

  1. 人類嘅肉
  2. 描述由人類代替機器或者動物嘅行為或功能

Examples

  • 人肉炸彈

    human bomb

  • 人肉路障

    human roadblock

  • 人肉搜索

    the action of searching someone by peoples' real-life social connections

  • 人肉錄音機

    human recorder, a person who repeats the same phrases like audio replays

  • 用刀叉食人肉

    to eat human flesh with knife and fork

  • 聽講以前可以喺黑市買到人肉。

    It was rumoured that one could buy human meat in the black market.

Sources: cc-canto, cc-cedict, rime-cantonese, words.hk

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