From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Bloodsucker \Blood"suck'er\, noun
1. (Zo["o]l.) Any animal that sucks blood; esp., the leech ({Hirudo medicinalis}), and related species.
2. One who sheds blood; a cruel, bloodthirsty man; one guilty of bloodshed; a murderer. [Obs.] --Shak.
3. A hard and exacting master, landlord, or money lender; an extortioner.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: 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
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