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BOTTOM FEEDER

Specialty Definition: BOTTOM FEEDER

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Computing

Bottom feeder n. 1. An Internet user that leeches off ISPs - the sort you can never provide good enough services for, always complains about the price, no matter how low it may be, and will bolt off to another service the moment there is even the slimmest price difference. While most bottom feeders infest free or almost free services such as AOL, MSN, and Hotmail, too many flock to whomever happens to be the cheapest regional ISP at the time. Bottom feeders are often the classic problem user, known for unleashing spam, flamage, and other breaches of netiquette. 2. Syn. for slopsucker, derived from the fishermen's and naturalists' term for finny creatures who subsist on the primordial ooze. (This sense is older.). Source: Jargon File.

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Modern Usage: BOTTOM FEEDER

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Lyrics

Bottom feeder insincere (A Change (Would Do You Good); performing artist: Sheryl Crow)

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Commercial Usage: BOTTOM FEEDER

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High Tech

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Image Slideshow: BOTTOM FEEDER

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: BOTTOM FEEDER

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

bottom feeder

38

bottom feeder fish

8

aquarium bottom feeder

2

2 bottom feeder

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: BOTTOM FEEDER

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-d-e-e-e-f-m-o-o-r-t-t"

-2 letters: freebooted.

-3 letters: befretted.

-4 letters: beetroot, bettered, bottomed, bottomer, fettered, forebode, freeboot, odometer, rebooted, roomette.

-5 letters: bedroom, boredom, broomed, forbode, freedom, fretted, metered, mofette, motored, tetrode.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: BOTTOM FEEDER


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 4F 54 54 4F 4D      46 45 45 44 45 52

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01001111 01010100 01010100 01001111 01001101 00100000 01000110 01000101 01000101 01000100 01000101 01010010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#79 &#84 &#84 &#79 &#77 &#32 &#70 &#69 &#69 &#68 &#69 &#82

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 004F 0054 0054 004F 004D      0046 0045 0045 0044 0045 0052

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3649545449472403939383952

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INDEX

1. Usage: Modern
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Images: Slideshow
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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