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bloodsucking

[bluhd-suhk-ing] / ˈblʌdˌsʌk ɪŋ /
ADJECTIVE
parasitic
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Ed Templeton is a painter, photographer and former professional skateboarder who runs Toy Machine Bloodsucking Skateboard Company.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 19, 2024

Just like Evan and the rest of his unmotivated colleagues, the creative team behind "Bloodsucking Bastards" never works overtime to take this self-amused enterprise to a more profitable place.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 3, 2015

An obvious and meandering mash-up of "Shaun of the Dead" and "Office Space," Brian James O'Connell's comedy-horror "Bloodsucking Bastards" only occasionally matches the inspiration of its jokey title.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 3, 2015

Bloodsucking leeches are offering the best hope of finding one of the world’s rarest animals.

From Nature • Apr. 25, 2012

Fleas in the pottage bowl, Fleas in the bread, Bloodsucking fleas In the blankets of our beds, Nibbling our buttocks And the backs of our knees, Biting and delighting Through the night — those fleas!

From "Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village" by Laura Amy Schlitz




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