Usually means: Consumer of detritus or leftovers.
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General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. bottom-feeder: Merriam-Webster
  2. bottom feeder: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bottom feeder: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. bottom feeder: Collins English Dictionary
  5. bottom-feeder, bottom feeder: Vocabulary.com
  6. bottom-feeder: Wordnik
  7. bottom-feeder, bottom feeder: Wiktionary
  8. bottom feeder: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. bottom-feeder, bottom feeder: Dictionary.com
  10. Bottom Feeder, Bottom feeder: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. bottom feeder: Rhymezone
  12. bottom-feeder, bottom feeder: FreeDictionary.org
  13. bottom-feeder, bottom feeder: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. bottom-feeder, bottom feeder: TheFreeDictionary.com
  15. bottom feeder: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. Bottom-feeder, bottom feeder: Financial dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. bottom feeder: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Bottom-feeder, bottom feeder: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bottom feeder (n.): Cats

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. bottom feeder: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  2. bottom-feeder: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (bottom feeder)

▸ noun:  A fish or other aquatic creature that feeds off the bottom of its habitat; a flatfish.
▸ noun:  (by extension, informal, derogatory) A person who operates amidst or thrives on the unwholesome things in a society; one who takes advantage of the misfortune of others.

Similar:
bottomfeeder, bottom-feeder, bottom-fishing, groundling, bottomfish, filter feeder, filter-feeder, blindfish, tailer, bottom fishing, more...

Opposite:
top predator, apex predator, alphpredator

Types:
catfish, carp, eel, lamprey, hagfish, stingray, bottom trawler, more...

Adjectives:
shortfin, finny, salmonid, scombroid, perciform, maigre, dab, burley, longjaw, trouty, phocine

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Similar:
bottomfeeder, bottom-feeder, bottom-fishing, groundling, bottomfish, filter feeder, filter-feeder, blindfish, tailer, bottom fishing, more...

Opposite:
top predator, apex predator, alphpredator

Types:
catfish, carp, eel, lamprey, hagfish, stingray, bottom trawler, more...

Adjectives:
shortfin, finny, salmonid, scombroid, perciform, maigre, dab, burley, longjaw, trouty, phocine



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