hy·e·na

hy·e·na
/haıˈiːnə/ noun, pl -nas [count]
: a large animal of Asia and Africa that eats the flesh of dead animals

a pack of hyenas

◇ The call of the hyena sounds like very loud laughter, and the hyena is sometimes referred to as a laughing hyena. A person who is laughing in a loud or foolish way is sometimes described as laughing like a hyena.

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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