PETA-phileとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

PETA-phile (plural PETA-philes)

1. (derogatory) A supporter of PETA, an American animal rights organization.
   • 1993 November 27, Inguinal j Splenetic, “I need some clothes in San Francisco”, in alt.fashion‎ (Usenet), via Google Groups, archived from the original on 22 April 2026:

     Regurgitated would be OK. By the wayside, are there any decent alternatives to leather jackets? (Not that I'm a Petaphile, mind yall.)

   • 2003 July 28, Richard Martin, “Game of chicken: Critics say capitulation to PETA will worsen animal rights reprisals”, in Nation's Restaurant News‎, volume 37, number 30, Lebhar-Friedman, via EBSCOhost, →ISSN, page 31:

     There seems little point, moreover, in trying to marginalize PETA-philes by faulting their rejection of the animal kingdom's remorseless food chain paradigm — that the big fish eat the little fish — or repudiation of the worldwide acceptance of meat eating as a proper option for descendants of hunters and gatherers.

   • 2015 December, Thomas McIntyre, “Fierce Objects of Desire”, in Anthony Licata, editor, Field & Stream‎, volume 120, number 8, via EBSCOhost, →ISSN, page 90:

     These are not the ravings of some PETA-phile but the purportedly honest conclusions of a, by his own lights, fellow sportsman.