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• n  carnivorous or bloodsucking aquatic or terrestrial worms typically having a sucker at each end

• On July 27, 1980, Radio Tehran announced the death of "the bloodsucker of the century.
• He calls them part of the "bloodsucker cycle"; in some communities, parents, village leaders, taxi drivers, tour guides, bankers and elements of the police are all involved.
• TITLE: THE TALE OF THE BODY THIEF AUTHOR: ANNE RICE PUBLISHER: KNOPF; 430 PAGES; $24 THE BOTTOM LINE: A foppish bloodsucker gets conned out.

• leech
• hirudinean

News & Articles

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• Mosquitoes getting slow start
  BROOKINGS – Florida is dealing with angry, giant mosquitoes 20 times larger than the common bloodsucker, and up in Paul Bunyan country, Northwoods residents are already fighting off “Minnesota hummingbirds” with baseball bats.
  June 21, 2013 - Brookings Daily Register
• ‘French Village,’ aka Nashua’s Tree Streets, on exhibit at library Friday
  NASHUA – Parades went down Walnut Street. Families swam in a bloodsucker-laden swamp and made sport of avoiding the critters. If you watched TV, you were standing on Kinsley Street looking into a store window, not sitting in your living room. Traffic was so sparse kids could get in a whole game of kick the can before the next car came along. Kids walked to South Common, picked sides, played a ...
  June 20, 2013 - The Nashua Telegraph
• 'The Vampire Diaries' Season 5: Arielle Kebbel says Lexi 'most likely will' return
  Arielle Kebbel says, and knows, "anything is possible in Mystic Falls" when it comes to returning to "The Vampire Diaries."Not only a recurring guest star as deceased yet ghostly bloodsucker Lexi Branson on the CW series, but also the host of the "Rehash" episode recaps on the network's Web site, Kebbel maintains she has no idea whether her character actually will resurface when Season 5 begins ...
  June 18, 2013 - Zap2It

Quotes

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• Abdel Bari Atwan in Malaysia Star
  He is presenting himself not as a terrorist, a bloodsucker, a man who would like to destroy the world -- he also has a political agenda, he is using this terrorism for political ends,said Abdel-Bari Atwan, editor of the London-based Al-Quds...