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Public Enemy Number One
noun
- (not in official use) a criminal at the top of the FBI's list of the ten most wanted criminals.
- a major menace to public safety, health, etc.:
Cancer is Public Enemy Number One.
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of Public Enemy Number One1
Example Sentences
"Donald Trump is public enemy number one to most in Canada, and I don't think it was coming across very well."
Actress Blake Lively was arguably the internet's public enemy number one for a couple of weeks in the summer.
In the late 1970s the Pistols, as the figureheads of the punk movement, were seen by many as public enemy number one, with their assaults on the music industry, the monarchy - and pretty much everything else.
Another waste turned public enemy number one, CO2,is an industrial gaseous effluent with low economic value.
England ultimately lost the match on penalties, leading Beckham to become public enemy number one.
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