bottom feeder in English

noun
1
an aquatic creature that feeds at the bottom of a body of water.
These fish are primarily bottom feeders and are aided in food finding by sensitive sensory papillae on their lips.
2
someone who profits from things cast off or left over by others.
In effect, the company has been taken over by its bankers who have signalled that they are not always prepared to sell off ailing investments for a pittance to the bottom feeders now gorging themselves on the corpses of failed companies.

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1. She' s such a bottom- feeder

2. You've become a bottom feeder, Philip.

3. Bottom-feeder, originally of fishes, is from 1866

4. If anyone has my hook, it's that beady-eyed bottom-feeder.

5. They ranged from top predator to bottom-feeder, big to small, marine to freshwater.

6. Even those investors who are buying bottom-feeder foreclosures and fixing them up might not be able to resell them so quickly.

7. What most people don’t realize about Gosnell is that he was a prince amongst Abortionists, belying the usual bottom-feeder image, which is typically accurate

8. At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Anurid Scavenger unless you put a card from your graveyard on the bottom of your library. Krosa's topmost bottom feeder. Illus.

9. In this article, we're talking all about Bottom feeders, and I don't mean that as an insult! Bottom feeder fish fill an important role in the home aquarium