Bloodsucker

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Bloodsucker \Blood"suck`er\, n.
     1. (Zool.) Any animal that sucks blood; esp., the leech
        ({Hirudo medicinalis}), and related species.
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     2. One who sheds blood; a cruel, bloodthirsty man; one guilty


        of bloodshed; a murderer. [Obs.] --Shak.
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     3. A hard and exacting master, landlord, or money lender; an
        extortioner.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  bloodsucker
       n : carnivorous or bloodsucking aquatic or terrestrial worms
           typically having a sucker at each end [syn: {leech}, {hirudinean}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  29 Moby Thesaurus words for "bloodsucker":
     barnacle, bedbug, blackmailer, extortioner, extortionist,
     freeloader, hanger-on, harpy, leech, lounge lizard, moocher,
     mosquito, parasite, predator, profiteer, racketeer, raptor,
     scrounge, scrounger, shakedown artist, shark, spiv, sponge,
     sponger, sucker, tick, vampire, vulture, wood tick