bottom feeder
Example Sentences
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Add critical personnel deficiencies — Eastern Michigan rushed for 305 yards — and a brutal upcoming schedule, and ASU could quickly join Colorado as a season-long bottom feeder.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 18, 2022
“We’re like this entertainment-industry bottom feeder, and as such we have a ton of creative freedom to really define what the American pub quiz actually is.”
From The Guardian • Mar. 5, 2020
A bottom feeder pretends to be a fearsome shark slayer after the son of a finned hoodlum meets an accidental death.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 13, 2019
When a columnist wrote a nasty piece dismissing the First Bloke as a “hipster salty seadog,” he tweeted a picture of himself holding a fish and calling it another bottom feeder.
From New York Times • Sep. 8, 2018
When this program gains control, it is powerful enough to load the actual OS and hand control over to it. :bottom feeder: /n./
From The Jargon File, Version 4.0.0, 24 Jul 1996 by Raymond, Eric S.
