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• n  carnivorous or bloodsucking aquatic or terrestrial worms typically having a sucker at each end
• n  a follower who hangs around a host (without benefit to the host) in hope of gain or advantage
• v  draw blood

• She could still leech the life out of a large audience with her platitudinous speeches; but at diners, schools and community centers she was able to connect one on one.
• Among the must-sees: a dog's heart with more holes than a wedge of Swiss cheese (thanks to a bad attack of heartworms); a tortoise's head with leech-ravaged eyelids; and an 8.
• For nearly 2,000 years leeches have been used in phlebotomy.

• bloodsucker
• hirudinean
• parasite
• sponge
• sponger
• bleed
• phlebotomize
• phlebotomise

News & Articles

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• Walleyes still biting in shallow water on Leech Lake
  Finally it looks like the Leech Lake area will get a break in the weather with warmer temperatures this week that have been hard to come by so far this season.
  June 11, 2013 - The Pilot-Independent
• Early native inhabitants of the Leech Lake area program June 18
  The Cass County Historical Society is presenting an educational/historical program on the “Early Inhabitants of the Leech Lake Area.”
  June 11, 2013 - The Pilot-Independent
• Walleyes still biting in shallow water on Leech Lake
  Finally it looks like the Leech Lake area will get a break in the weather with warmer temperatures this week that have been hard to come by so far this season.
  June 11, 2013 - The Pilot-Independent

Quotes

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• Ian Brady in Click Liverpool
  In his letter Brady writes: "I request and expect nothing from the vermin here, except a coffin, and am politically force-fed as they can't leech a living from dead bodies."
• Kenny MacAskill in Times Online
  Criminals don't contribute to our communities, they leech off them,Kenny MacAskill, the justice secretary, said. "That is why the Scottish government is taking the cash these criminals make off the backs of law-abiding folk and are putting...
• Demi Moore in Edmonton Journal
  Demi Moore, on David Letterman the other night, explained her youthful appearance this way: "I was in Austria doing a cleanse and part of the treatment was leech therapy ...... we're talking high level blood suckers. They have a little enzyme that...