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Leech - Sailing(gambling)
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Wall Street (money) and leech(2) (iou)


Wall Street (money)


Definition: Means the New York banking and financial community, the New York Stock Exchange.

Definition: [crh] Generic term for the securities industry firms that buy, sell, and underwrite Definition: s">securities.







leech(2) (iou)



leech noun2.

Any annelid worm of the class Hirudinea, comprising forms with a sucker at each end; esp. one that sucks blood, as Hirudo medicinalis, formerly used for drawing blood. OE.
horseleech, land leech, medicinal leech, sea leech, water leech, etc.
fig. A rapacious exploitative person. (See note below.) L18.
Phrases: like a leech persistently.
Comb.: leech-extract an anticoagulant extract prepared from leeches, containing hirudin; leech-glass Medicine a glass tube to hold a leech when applying it to a particular spot.
? The parallel fig. use of horseleech is recorded M16.
leechlike adjective resembling (that of) a leech L17.