as in parasites
a person who is supported by or seeks support from another without making an adequate return
whenever the gang went out for pizza, the leech in the group always had an excuse for not paying his fair share
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Read Next World Large parasites found protruding from fish’s head in South Atlantic.—
Mark Price,
Miami Herald,
12 Mar. 2025 -
The agency reported that testing for parasites, bacteria, viruses and more than 250 chemicals, as well as checks for such issues as toxic red tide, turned up nothing definitive.—
Curt Anderson,
Sun Sentinel,
5 Mar. 2025
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“Leeches.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/leeches. Accessed 1 May. 2025.
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