Public Enemy No. 1

A form of public enemy number one — A person who ranks highest on the federal government's prioritized list of wanted criminal fugitives.

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Meanings

nounPublic Enemy No. 1 (uncountable)
  1. alternativeuncountableAlternative form of public enemy number one.

    On a recent Thursday, Vani Hari, perhaps Public Enemy No. 1 of big food companies, sat at ABC Kitchen in the Flatiron district wearing a purple sweater with a giant pink heart and pink heart-shaped crystal earrings.

    2015 March 13, Courtney Rubin, “Taking On the Food Industry, One Blog Post at a Time”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 20 Mar 2015
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