Describing something or someone that drains resources, money, or life force from others; literally feeding on blood like a vampire or mosquito.
Compound of 'blood' (Old English 'blod') and 'sucking' (from Old French 'sucier'). Originally literal in the 1600s for creatures like leeches and mosquitoes, it evolved metaphorically by the 1800s to describe exploitative people or businesses that drain others.
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