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Definition of bottom feeder in English: bottom feedernoun 1Any marine creature that lives on the seabed and feeds by scavenging. Example sentencesExamples - These fish are primarily bottom feeders and are aided in food finding by sensitive sensory papillae on their lips.
- Some swellsharks are sluggish bottom feeders that prey on dead or sleeping fish or crustaceans.
- Although their underslung mouth suggests a bottom feeder, carp are quite capable of feeding on the surface and can often be seen swirling at emerging food morsels during the warmer months of the year.
- They are passive bottom feeders, who tend to lie up and sleep during the day, and swim lazily over the reef at night, munching the odd crab.
- Their use is believed to have pushed the numbers of porpoises, also bottom feeders, in areas such as the Baltic Sea, to the verge of extinction.
- Recent observations have dispelled the beliefs that gray whales are only bottom feeders and that they do not eat during their migrations.
- For the most part cryptically marked bottom feeders, many clinids change color near spawning time.
- Walruses are bottom feeders and generally graze on slow-moving prey in waters no more than 250 feet deep; several species of clams comprise the majority of their diet.
- Smaller two-hook rigs baited with fresh shrimp will take all the bottom feeders, which really come out to play as the tide drops off around low and high water.
- These scum-sucking bottom feeders are the scourge of fishermen everywhere.
- Scraps of fish had fallen to the bottom, and stingrays, which are natural bottom feeders were absolutely feasting on them.
2North American informal A member of a group of very low social status who survives by any means possible. Example sentencesExamples - The little side-by-side Chief is, and always has been, one of the financial bottom feeders of aviation.
- The Lions might be able to squeak out a narrow victory over die league's bottom feeders, but all of their warts are exposed when they play a solid team, as Sunday's loss to the Packers showed.
- Instead of stereotyping them as the bottom feeders of the bird world, Davee makes a declarative statement regarding crows' artistic qualities.
- His was a bottom feeder bargain basement operation.
- It is well known in boxing circles that he is a bottom feeder.
- But it can't do much for your self-esteem to know that you're among the bottom feeders of the workforce, right alongside telemarketers and bill collectors.
- They had to flog it off to a bottom feeder at a distressed price.
- We're never going to be satisfied being a bottom feeder.
- Slot machines had always been the bottom feeder section of the casinos, the place where husbands sent their wives while they went and lost at roulette.
- Since we contractors are generally regarded as bottom feeders, I appreciate that.
- He may have snubbed his own son, but at least he wasn't a bottom feeder like the other men Tammy dated.
- They struck gold simply because most of society consider lawyers as bottom feeders somewhere on the ladder beneath used car salesman and alphabet network anchormen.
- Because of their overall dearth of talent, Washington competes only with the rest of the league's bottom feeders.
- When all the work is complete take yourself off for a treat and spend some of the cash that would, by now, be lining the pockets of a bottom feeder had you not been savvy enough to keep him at arms length.
- Question is: will the mobile operator launch with a Vodafone Lite brand - or trawl for bottom feeders with a virtual mobile operator in tow?
- 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.
- There are a lot of bottom feeders in publishing looking to make a quick buck.
- His handicap has been dropping consistently but he continues to be a bottom feeder.
Definition of bottom feeder in US English: bottom feedernoun 1An aquatic creature that feeds at the bottom of a body of water. Example sentencesExamples - These fish are primarily bottom feeders and are aided in food finding by sensitive sensory papillae on their lips.
- Smaller two-hook rigs baited with fresh shrimp will take all the bottom feeders, which really come out to play as the tide drops off around low and high water.
- These scum-sucking bottom feeders are the scourge of fishermen everywhere.
- Walruses are bottom feeders and generally graze on slow-moving prey in waters no more than 250 feet deep; several species of clams comprise the majority of their diet.
- Some swellsharks are sluggish bottom feeders that prey on dead or sleeping fish or crustaceans.
- They are passive bottom feeders, who tend to lie up and sleep during the day, and swim lazily over the reef at night, munching the odd crab.
- Although their underslung mouth suggests a bottom feeder, carp are quite capable of feeding on the surface and can often be seen swirling at emerging food morsels during the warmer months of the year.
- For the most part cryptically marked bottom feeders, many clinids change color near spawning time.
- Recent observations have dispelled the beliefs that gray whales are only bottom feeders and that they do not eat during their migrations.
- Scraps of fish had fallen to the bottom, and stingrays, which are natural bottom feeders were absolutely feasting on them.
- Their use is believed to have pushed the numbers of porpoises, also bottom feeders, in areas such as the Baltic Sea, to the verge of extinction.
2North American informal Someone who profits from things cast off or left over by others. Example sentencesExamples - Because of their overall dearth of talent, Washington competes only with the rest of the league's bottom feeders.
- His was a bottom feeder bargain basement operation.
- We're never going to be satisfied being a bottom feeder.
- His handicap has been dropping consistently but he continues to be a bottom feeder.
- 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.
- They had to flog it off to a bottom feeder at a distressed price.
- They struck gold simply because most of society consider lawyers as bottom feeders somewhere on the ladder beneath used car salesman and alphabet network anchormen.
- Question is: will the mobile operator launch with a Vodafone Lite brand - or trawl for bottom feeders with a virtual mobile operator in tow?
- The Lions might be able to squeak out a narrow victory over die league's bottom feeders, but all of their warts are exposed when they play a solid team, as Sunday's loss to the Packers showed.
- Instead of stereotyping them as the bottom feeders of the bird world, Davee makes a declarative statement regarding crows' artistic qualities.
- Slot machines had always been the bottom feeder section of the casinos, the place where husbands sent their wives while they went and lost at roulette.
- Since we contractors are generally regarded as bottom feeders, I appreciate that.
- He may have snubbed his own son, but at least he wasn't a bottom feeder like the other men Tammy dated.
- There are a lot of bottom feeders in publishing looking to make a quick buck.
- But it can't do much for your self-esteem to know that you're among the bottom feeders of the workforce, right alongside telemarketers and bill collectors.
- When all the work is complete take yourself off for a treat and spend some of the cash that would, by now, be lining the pockets of a bottom feeder had you not been savvy enough to keep him at arms length.
- The little side-by-side Chief is, and always has been, one of the financial bottom feeders of aviation.
- It is well known in boxing circles that he is a bottom feeder.
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