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bottom-feeder

/bot-uhm fee-der/US // ˈbɒt əm ˌfi dər //

底部喂食器,底部进料器,底层进料器,底部进纸器

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : bottom fish.
    • : an opportunist, as in politics or business: bottom feeders who buy up commercial failures.
    • : a person or thing having low status or value; loser: bottom feeders hanging out in seedy bars.
    • : a person who appeals to base instincts: Gossip columnists are the bottom feeders of journalism.

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Examples

  • There are no recent titles to lure prospective players, but Locksley believes this program, recently a bottom feeder in the Big Ten, has an “unlimited ceiling.”

  • He hits bottom at Rocamadour, a sanctuary in the Dordogne known as a citadel of faith devoted to Mary.

  • Despite its ranking at the bottom of most international development indexes, the conflict is shrouded by confusion.

  • Mary Elizabeth Williams of Salon labels the show a “crass stunt” on a “bottom-feeding vortex of sadness network.”

  • Bottom line is that it will only be a BVR [beyond visual range] airplane.

  • On Monday, Soelistyo had jolted relatives as well as searchers by suggesting that the plane could be “at the bottom of the sea.”

  • But, as the keel of the boats touched bottom, each boat-load dashed into the water and then into the enemy's fire.

  • In these archipelagos the waters being shallow, the frost was quite intense enough to cool them to the bottom.

  • "I have a letter somewhere," looking in the machine drawer and finding the letter in the bottom of the workbasket.

  • In the presence of bromin the chloroform, which settles to the bottom, assumes a yellow color.

  • The signatures at the bottom of this memorandum, were hidden from Wharton's view, when he was allowed to read it.