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n. (alternative spelling of bloodsucker English)
Usage examples of "blood-sucker".
Strangely, Vampyrum is the false vampire, while Desmodus and Diphylla are the true blood-suckers.
With the enthusiastic egotism of the true artist he went over his most celebrated performances, and smiled bitterly to himself as he recalled to mind his last appearance as "Red Ruben, or the Strangled Babe," his début as "Gaunt Gibeon, the Blood-sucker of Bexley Moor," and the furore he had excited one lonely June evening by merely playing ninepins with his own bones upon the lawn-tennis ground.
The beast had somehow managed to loosen the edges of the filmseal and, despite the force-screen over her corral, blood-suckers had attached themselves to the suppuration.
Fortunately, once she dislodged the blood-suckers, Varian thought the flesh looked healthy enough.