bottom dweller
/ˈbɑtəm ˌdwɛlər/
noun
- A fish or other sea creature that lives on or near the bottom of a body of water.
- Catfish are bottom-dwellers that feed on scraps and small creatures in the mud.
- The aquarium has a special tank for bottom-dwellers like loaches and corydoras.
- Many bottom-dwellers have flat bodies to help them hide on the ocean floor.
- A person who is considered low in social status, lazy, or dishonest; someone who lives in a poor or undesirable way.
- She refused to be treated like a bottom-dweller and worked hard to improve her life.
- In the movie, the villain is a bottom-dweller who cheats people out of their money.
- The old man was called a bottom-dweller by the townspeople because he never worked and lived in a shack.