BLOODSUCKER


Meaning of BLOODSUCKER in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ blʌdsʌkə(r) ]

( bloodsuckers)

1.

A bloodsucker is any creature that sucks blood from a wound that it has made in an animal or person.

N-COUNT

2.

If you call someone a bloodsucker , you disapprove of them because you think they do not do anything worthwhile but live off the efforts of other people.

At last he was free from the financial bloodsuckers.

N-COUNT [ disapproval ]

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