[
US
/ˈtɑɹˌzæn, ˈtɑɹzən/
]
NOUN
- (sometimes used ironically) a man of great strength and agility (after the hero of a series of novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs)
- a man raised by apes who was the hero of a series of novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs
How To Use Tarzan In A Sentence
- When you look at Matt's work, you'll see that he has not lost touch with his inner air guitarist/trampoline jumper/yodeler/Tarzan. Archive 2007-10-01
- The mace has been brutalized at times: Former Conservative minister Michael Heseltine won the nickname Tarzan after swinging it round his head during a heated debate in 1976. Parliament Finally Sees Some Beauty
- Likewise, the Tarzan-like sequences of Lila and the apeman, dubbed "Puff," swinging through the trees in pursuit of one another against a patently artificial rear projection backdrop whose retro obviousness is a throwback to classic Hollywood aesthetics. Archive 2008-12-01
- But while Tarzan is the "feral child" legend writ large, Fu Manchu is not the "evil genius". Boing Boing: May 4, 2003 - May 10, 2003 Archives
- There's a new, scalier lord of the jungle: Tarzan the chameleon. Rainforest Portal RSS Newsfeed
- Me, I don't have the slightest inclination to play Tarzan again. INCA GOLD
- The least developed of all, in Tarzan, was the sense of taste, for he could eat luscious fruits, or raw flesh, long buried, with almost equal appreciation; but in that he differed but slightly from more civilized epicures.
- Import gorillas into the backyard, and amplify the wetas to a flesh-crawlingly revolting size, and Tarzan is reborn as one of ours.
- What do Tarzan and the animals sing at Christmas time?
- She could trek through the grass playing Jungle Explorers, swinging on the creepers like a tiny Tarzan.