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    [Noun]  | "leech" | \ ˈlēch \


    1: any of numerous carnivorous or bloodsucking usually freshwater annelid worms (class Hirudinea) that have typically a flattened lanceolate segmented body with a sucker at each end

    2: a hanger-on who seeks advantage or gain

    3: physician, surgeon


    Origin: before 12th century ;

     Middle English leche, from Old English lǣce; akin to Old High German lāhhi physician;

    [Noun]  | "leech" | \ ˈlēch \


    1: either vertical edge of a square sail

    2: the after edge of a fore-and-aft sail


    Origin: 15th century ;

     Middle English leche; akin to Middle Low German līk boltrope;

    [Noun]  | "leach" 


    1: either vertical edge of a square sail

    2: the after edge of a fore-and-aft sail

    [Noun]  | "medicinal leech" 


    1: a large European freshwater leech (Hirudo medicinalis) that is a source of hirudin, is sometimes used to drain blood (as from newly grafted tissue), and was formerly used to bleed patients thought to have excess blood


    Origin: 1804 ;

    [Verb]  | "leech" 


    1: to attach oneself to a person as a leech

    2: to bleed by the use of leeches

    3: to drain the substance of : exhaust


    Origin: 1641 ;

     See: ;

    [Verb]  | "leech" 


    1: as in use, mooch;


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    [Noun]  | "leech" 


    1: a person who is supported by or seeks support from another without making an adequate return;


      * e.g., " ... 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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     [ "leech" ]

    1: One who constantly takes from others without giving anything in return.

      * e.g.,  ... ExThe man is a leech who lives with his friend and has never contributed money for rent, utilities, or groceries. 


     [ "leech" ]

    2: One who constantly copies things from others, such as style, phrases, expressions, and actions.

      * e.g.,  ... ExThat woman is a leech who gets her whole style from her friends. 

     [ "leech" ]

    1: Someone who calls themselves a friend but they only use you until someone better comes along to feed off.

      * e.g.,  ... Jasper was such a leech, he would use people for there drugs, money and sex than move onto the next victim to suck dry. 

     [ "leech" ]

    1: To solely download from a peer-to-peer network, without any intent and/or capability to redistribute files accordingly. This lack of sharing is often due to inanely selfish motives, but is occasionally the product of a implausibly slow upstream transfer rate or lack of content to share. Possesses highly negative connotations.

      * e.g.,  ... <SuperiorityComplex511> Share or die; no leeching. 

     [ "leech" ]

    1: A person who "leeches", or clings, to one person at a time throughout the day.

      * e.g.,  ... "Anna is such a leech!" 

     [ "leech" ]

    1: Originally meaning to be able to download without uploading. FPT sites many years ago would often have ratios where people would get a certain amount of downloadable bytes for every byte they uploaded. Sites that did not have ratios were said to be "leech" sites because you could download all you wanted without having to upload. Now a days most FTP sites are "leech" anyway. The term now more refers to any individual who is often into the piracy scene and does nothing but download files for cracked versions of software, movies, music and so on. They do not share what they have downloaded and don't provide help to others looking for certain files.

      * e.g.,  ... "Don't leech the entire folder asshole! That is like 200 gigs worth of shit. Let somebody else get on the server for once!" 

     [ "leech" ]

    1: A. a person who purposely lacks effort in picking up slack for important things such as 1)paying rent, 2)buying food, 3) leaves things left unfinished in places such as the workplace or home, 4) refusing to get a job to live off of their what parents/guardians make and buy.

      * e.g.,  ... OMFG, that guy needs to stop leeching and be an adult about things some things!!! 


     [ "leech" ]

    2: B. a person playing an online game who a) joins a team, group, or guild and goes AFK for undeterminded amounts of time to gain money or experience without putting any effort forth, b) leaves his/her workload for others to pick up, and/or c) begs and asks for free things and hand outs from other high level players.

      * e.g.,  ... ...yeah...shes gonna get fired soon, she leeches company pay but goes home early all the time with nothing finished. 

     [ "leech" ]

    1: Someone who limits, or completely turns off, their upstream in internet peer-to-peer file sharing because they have no interest in actually sharing.

      * e.g.,  ... Leecher-X says he doesn't upload in Bit Torrent because it makes web browsing impossible, even on broadband. We both know it's really because he is a selfish bastard though. 

     [ "leech" ]

    1:  Any of various chiefly moronic filesucking, bandwiidth hogging, and carnivorous 'users' of the class assholenea takeallus, of which one species (homo forumis) is generally found to suck in forums too.

      * e.g.,  ... slx laughs as he leeches off P2P. 'What fools they are!', he thinks to himself, 'P2P my ass, P2ME I say! MUHAHAHAHAHA!!!' 


     [ "leech" ]

    2:  One that preys on or clings to another; a parasite, fileleech.


     [ "leech" ]

    3:  One on who existance depends on the good deeds of others, but never themselves.


     [ "leech" ]

    4:  One who does not support the community.

     [ "leech" ]

    1: A person who can't get anything himself and has to feed of the more fortunate

      * e.g.,  ... A HOBO or my mom (thats right i said it mom) 

     [ "leech" ]

    1: A person who targets a group of people and stops at nothing to hang out with them. They usually target one of the nicest group members first, then make their way to the best looking one in the group, therefore allowing them to slowly become a part of the group, even though they are disliked.

      * e.g.,  ... Man that Codie girl made you drive for 45 minutes to a San Diego resort. She's a definately a leech. 

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