- 1an animal or insect that sucks blood from people or animals
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- 2(informal) (disapproving) a person who takes advantage of other people in order to gain financial benefit
adjective [only before noun] bloodsucking insects (disapproving) bloodsucking lawyersSee bloodsucker in the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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