Pac-Man

Pac Man English Alternative forms en Pac Man Etymology From the popular arcade game Pac-Man (1980) and its player character, a circle with a snapping mouth gobbling dots in a maze. The original Japanese title of Puck Man (ja パックマン) was derived from ja ぱくぱく パクパク gobble gobble pakupaku (en 1) and ja マン man, from en man; the title was changed for the North American release to mitigate vandalism (en Puck → en fuck). Pronunciation en en En-au-Pac-Man.ogg AU Noun Pac-Men Pac-Man en slang figurative Anything that consumes indiscriminately. en 1992 Kenneth Janda; Jeffrey M Berry; Jerry Goldman The challenge of democracy: government in America "Medicaid is becoming the Pac-Man of state government, eating up every dollar," remarked one official. en 1995 Bruce Piasecki Corporate environmental strategy: the avalanche of change since Bhopal Chlorine acts like a Pac-Man of the high atmosphere, gobbling one ozone molecule after another and then being regenerated to gobble again. en 1995 J Richard Middleton; Brian J Walsh Truth is stranger than it used to be: biblical faith in a postmodern age 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." en 1995 Patrick J Spain; James R Talbot Hoover's Handbook of American Companies 1996 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. Related terms en Pacman conjecture Pac-Man effect Pac-Man illusion Pacman frog en eponyms