bottomfeeder
bottom feeder
1.
2.
an opportunist, as in politics or business: bottom feeders who buy up commercial failures.
3.
a person having low status; loser; lowlife: bottom feeders hanging out in seedy bars.
4.
a person who appeals to base instincts: Gossip columnists are the bottom feeders of journalism.
Also, bot·tom-feed·er.
Also called bottom-fisher (defs 2–4).
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| bottom feeder | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a fish that feeds on material at the bottom of a river, lake, sea, etc |
| 2. | an objectionable and unimpressive person or thing |
| 3. | Also called: bottom fisher a speculator who buys shares in companies that are performing poorly in anticipation of improved performance |
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bottom feeder
n. Syn. for slopsucker, derived from the fishermen's and naturalists' term for finny creatures who subsist on the primordial ooze.
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BottomFeeder definition
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