1. Large heavily built seabird with a long stout bill noted for its plunging dives for fish
   "Gannets dove spectacularly from great heights to catch fish"
    
2. [Brit] A person who enjoys eating and often eats to excess
   "The gannet sampled every dish at the buffet";
   - glutton, gourmand, gourmandizer, greedyguts [informal], gormandizer, gormandiser [Brit]

Derived forms: gannets

Type of: eater, feeder, pelecaniform seabird

Part of: family Sulidae, Sulidae

Encyclopedia: Gannet