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/ˈblʌdˌsʌkɚ/ · noun
An animal that drinks the blood of others, especially by sucking blood through a puncture wound; a hemovore..
Meyer, in turn, offered a chaste variation on the promiscuous bloodsuckers of Anne Rice. And back in Rice’s heyday of the 1980s and ’90s, mass market copies of her “Interview With the Vampire” occupied the same spinning racks as other critically slammed authors of the ’70s and ’80s: Danielle Steel, Sidney Sheldon, Judith Krantz, Jackie Collins.
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Blood sucker means An animal that drinks the blood of others, especially by sucking blood through a puncture wound; a hemovore..
Common synonyms include gadfly, hirudinean, leech.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Meyer, in turn, offered a chaste variation on the promiscuous bloodsuckers of Anne Rice. And back in Rice’s heyday of the 1980s and ’90s, mass market copies of her “Interview With the Vampire” occupied the same spinning racks as other critically slammed authors of the ’70s and ’80s: Danielle Steel, Sidney Sheldon, Judith Krantz, Jackie Collins.
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