Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An animal, such as a leech, that sucks blood.
- noun An extortionist or a blackmailer.
- noun A person who is intrusively or overly dependent upon another; a parasite.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Any animal that sucks blood, as a leech, a mosquito, etc.
- noun A name of a common agamoid East Indian lizard, Calotes versicolor, perhaps so called from the reddish hue of the throat, as it does not suck blood.
- noun A cruel or bloodthirsty man; hence, one who sucks the blood of or preys upon another; an extortioner; a sponger.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) Any animal that sucks blood; esp., the leech (
Hirudo medicinalis ), and related species. - noun obsolete One who sheds blood; a cruel, bloodthirsty man; one guilty of bloodshed; a murderer.
- noun A hard and exacting master, landlord, or money lender; an extortioner.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who
drinks theblood of others, especially bysucking blood through apuncture wound; ahemovore . - noun By extension, any
parasite . - noun By extension, one who attempts to take as much from others as possible.
- noun A
vampire .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun carnivorous or bloodsucking aquatic or terrestrial worms typically having a sucker at each end
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Examples
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Another pest is a small midge, or sand-fly, which causes intolerable itching, and subsequent irritation, and is in this respect the most insufferable torment in Sikkim; the minutest rent in one's clothes is detected by the acute senses of this insatiable bloodsucker, which is itself so small as to be barely visible without a microscope.
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The head of the Chamber of Commerce-the nation's largest business trade association, with an annual budget of $258 million-doesn't mind being called a bloodsucker or inspiring howls of protest.
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I wonder what kind of bloodsucker would want to make me itch.
Some gross poems for kids! Linda 2008
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I wonder what kind of bloodsucker would want to make me itch.
Archive 2008-03-01 Linda 2008
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So they hastened to him and, tucking up their sleeves, fell to searching for the flea; but as soon as the bloodsucker was aware of the search, he turned to flee and coming on the mouse’s home, entered it.
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Brown also chastised state Sen. Eric Johnson during his speech, calling the Republican candidate for lieutenant governor a "bloodsucker" pandering to voters.
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Brown also chastised state Sen. Eric Johnson during his speech, calling the Republican candidate for lieutenant governor a "bloodsucker" pandering to voters.
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Ethan Hawke stars as a vampire scientist who rebels against a society ruled by a bloodsucker majority, linking up with a human survivor underground led by Willem Dafoe.
Vampires And Laughs Highlight Our First Box Office Poll Of 2010 » MTV Movies Blog 2010
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Bonus points for also working in a Buffy reference (the victim, a talented artist and bloodsucker wannabe named Crow, had been staked).
Beat Cop: 'Castle' brings the return of Captain Tightpants! | EW.com 2009
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It's a fun little romp with a few twists on the bloodsucker mythos: here we get a nest of vampires operating from a strip club.
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