Leech

What do we mean by leech?

Any of various chiefly aquatic carnivorous or bloodsucking annelid worms of the class (or subclass) Hirudinea, of which one species (Hirudo medicinalis) was formerly widely used by physicians for therapeutic bloodletting. noun

One that preys on or clings to another; a parasite. noun

A physician. noun

To bleed with leeches. intransitive verb

To drain the essence or exhaust the resources of. intransitive verb

To attach oneself to another in the manner of a leech. intransitive verb

Either vertical edge of a square sail. noun

The after edge of a fore-and-aft sail. noun

To treat with medicaments; heal; doctor.

A physician; a medical practitioner; a professor of the art of healing. noun

To apply leeches to, for the purpose of bleeding.

Nautical, the perpendicular or sloping edge of a sail. noun

See leach. noun

An aquatic, more or less parasitic, and blood-sucking worm; a suctorial or discophorous annelid of the order Hirudinea. noun

Figuratively, one who, as it were, sucks the blood or steals the substance of his victim, or persistently holds on for sordid gain. noun

See 2d leach. noun

See leach, v. t. transitive verb

The border or edge at the side of a sail. noun

A line attached to the leech ropes of sails, passing up through blocks on the yards, to haul the leeches by. noun

That part of the boltrope to which the side of a sail is sewed. noun

An aquatic blood-sucking annelid of class Hirudinea, especially Hirudo medicinalis.

A person who derives profit from others in a parasitic fashion.

A glass tube designed for drawing blood from damaged tissue by means of a vacuum.

1.One who constantly takes from others without giving anything in return. 2.One who constantly copies things from others, such as style, phrases, expressions, and actions. Urban Dictionary

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

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. Urban Dictionary

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

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. Urban Dictionary

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. 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. Urban Dictionary

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

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. 2. One that preys on or clings to another; a parasite, fileleech. 3. One on who existance depends on the good deeds of others, but never themselves. 4. One who does not support the community. Urban Dictionary

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

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. Urban Dictionary

Words that are spelled similarly to leech:
leech, leach, beech, lech, letch, keech, meech, reech, sleech, fleech, lerch, geech, lesch, leich, leeth, weech, eech, bleech, peech, leetch.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word leech:
leeches, lattice, anticoagulant, taki, artie, cass, reservation, reservations, bites, medicinal, dickens, sail, mutant, punch, barber, fault, lake, wingspan, mint, bite, tribal, creature, minnesota, demons, norm, eddie, throat, vampire, potter, dimensions, dimension, blood, freestyle, auckland, powers, newcastle, indian, manchester, grammar, woman, china, feed, drawing, bobby.

Words that rhyme with leech:
breach, reach, speech, teach, beach, impeach, breech, beseech, outreach, leach, each, peach, preach, bleach, beech, screech, overreach, part of speech, figure of speech, queach, keech, dreich, meech, pleach, microfiche, creech, keach, material breach, edward teach, cheech, veatch, freedom of speech, out of reach, seabeach, piech, meach, creach, leitch, veach, stump speech, black beech, keynote speech, long beach, pietsch, red beech, visible speech, copper beech, american beech, purple beech, anticipatory breach, native peach, negro peach, european beech, white beech, hard beech, silver beech, roble beech, constructive breach, myrtle beech, partial breach, weech, weeping beech, liquid bleach, common beech, japanese beech, native beech, dietsch, evergreen beech, new-zealand beech, wild peach, indian beech, leetch, southern beech, broadbeach, dietsche, inspeech, keetch, long-beach, reeche, swiech, veech, wiech.

Adjectives that are often used to describe leech:
medicinal, artificial, learned, common, old, skilful, good, small, little, late, large, single, giant, poor, black, young, european, white, bloodsucking, red, huge, medical, marine, filthy, big, famous, christian, hungry, pretended, taut, fat, freshwater, bloated, cunning, enormous, dear, earthly, experienced, after, tight, wise, precious, upper, green, skilled, ordinary, brown, flat, mechanical, regular, gigantic, outer, hearted, parasitic, monstrous, sweet, roman, swollen, skillful, commonest, worthy, insatiable, predatory, dog, celebrated, astounded, mystic, hollow, tiny, slimy, golden, kiddy, haired, humble.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective leech:
gatherer, bites, craft, wilkinson, lines, bite, gatherers, child, therapy, rope, book, books, line, cry, tube, pond, lake, glass, ropes, field, gaiters, god, extracts, death, wives, saliva, points, biology, pattern, lore, zarathustra, fondles, infestation, living, neurons, fisher, patterns, notes, prince, fibula, gathering, sucking, owls, finger, bliley, muscle, socks, plasma, host, heads, pool.

Consonant match to leech:
louche, lurch, latch, leach, loach, letch, lich, leche, looch, lache, loche, lach, lauch, leitch, lerche, laiche, leetch, laatsch, latsch, letsch.

Words that sound like leech:
leech, leach, leetch, leitch, leash, latch, liege, lich, luch, leche, lege, lauch, letch, lach, loach, lache, looch, laiche, liche, lyche, laich, looc, latsch, lii, leave, lee, lean, ledge, leak, leo, lease, leah, lash, bleach, lia, li, lea, leigh, leek, leve, lees, lien, leen, leanne, leet, lige, -ly, leas, lesh, lage, lete, lel, lene, leat, lidge, liet, leal, lieve, leese, lein, lele, leigha, leacher, leel, liao, lauge, leake, leached, leea, lese, leece, liese, leeched, liess, leechee, lichi, leise, leiu, leke, leite, lih, laj, leachy, leete, lch, leac, leine, leick, lesch, lici, lerche, lece, lasch, lhea, lhi, leiv, leih, lieh, fleech, hli.