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  • noun In China, a seller of blood.

Etymologies

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blood +‎ head

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Examples

  • Working through a blood broker, or "" bloodhead, '' he stands in illegally for people drafted as donors by their work units -- and makes $50 a visit.

    Blood And Money 2008

  • In the 1990s, tens of thousands of poor farmers sold plasma to commercial "bloodhead" operations.

    NYT > Home Page By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr. 2011

  • (Terry was almost as unpredictable as a bloodhead.) “Doesn’t matter to me what you call me,” he said.

    Dead As A Doornail Harris, Charlaine 2005

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