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Definition of Bottom feeder
1. Noun. An opportunist who profits from the misfortunes of others.
Definition of Bottom feeder
1. Noun. A fish or other aquatic creature who feeds off the bottom of their habitat; a flatfish ¹
2. Noun. (By extension) A person who dwells amidst or thrives off of the unwholesome things in a society ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bottom Feeder
Literary usage of Bottom feeder
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"It is a bottom feeder and will take a fish-bait either alive or dead; it is said
occasionally to run at a spinning bait when used very deep. Burbot. ..."
2. Goin' Fishin': Weather and Feed Facts; the Fresh-water Game Fish; the by Carroll Blaine Cook (1920)
"WALL-EYE A bottom feeder Of course, as he is a bottom feeder, gliding along about
a foot above the bottom and often lying closer ..."
3. The Story of the Fishes by George Robert Charles Herbert Pembroke, James Newton Baskett, George Henry Kingsley (1899)
"You recall that the little barbel on the cod's lower jaw tells that it is a bottom
feeder, and the flatfishes themselves were quite likely FIG. 91. ..."
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