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EAGER BEAVER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does eager beaver mean?
• EAGER BEAVER (noun)
The noun EAGER BEAVER has 1 sense:
1. an alert and energetic person
Familiarity information: EAGER BEAVER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An alert and energetic person
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
busy bee; eager beaver; live wire; sharpie; sharpy
Hypernyms ("eager beaver" is a kind of...):
actor; doer; worker (a person who acts and gets things done)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "eager beaver"):
goffer; gopher (a zealously energetic person (especially a salesman))
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