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• n  a person who is devoted to eating and drinking to excess

• But not Cheney in the space of the last five years, he fearlessly gained 40 pounds, displaying a trenchermans appetite for life and an admirable disdain for cardiologists .
• A one-time employe in the House restaurant, he found icebox foraging easy, became a trencherman.
• And in 1963, Eddie "Bozo" Miller ate 27 chickens at a Trader Vic's restaurant in San Francisco to win the Guinness Book of Records title of "world's greatest trencherman.

• glutton
• gourmand
• gourmandizer

News & Articles

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• First Look at Michael Stillman’s Quality ­Italian
  Why open a sprawling midtown steakhouse when you could open a sprawling midtown Italian restaurant that specializes in hefty cuts of USDA prime? That is the thinking behind Michael Stillman’s Quality ­Italian, opening a block away from the restaurateur’s Quality Meats . While ­Stillman is not the first to capitalize on the trencherman-pleasing appeal of this best-of-both-worlds combo, he may be ...
  July 22, 2013 - New York Magazine