Definition of "bottom-feeder" [bottom-feeder]

• A scavenger that feeds low on the food chain (noun)
• A fish that lives and feeds on the bottom of a body of water (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "Sports Illustrated, ESPN and everybody in between picked the Bears to be a league afterthought at best, bottom-feeder at worst."
• "A toxic cocktail of shady foreign donors, government backing for cockamamie tourism projects, and bottom-feeder activists in the volatile Palestinian quarters of Silwan and Sheikh Jarrah, threatens to set a new definition of chaos."
• "Therefore, I have made a vow to always be a bottom-feeder. amygal"