Meaning

3 senses

  1. One who leeches; a physician.

  2. (Internet)One who downloads material without uploading in exchange.

  3. (Internet)Any downloading peer in a BitTorrent swarm, regardless of whether that peer is uploading or not.

Origin

From leech + -er.

From leech + -er.

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Forms

plural: leechers
Singularleecher
Pluralleechers

regular

Word family

2 related words
Relatedseedertorrent

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
leeleechleekB2leer

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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