leech onto

1. 1.

   admire boundlessly and follow around

   “the groupies leeched onto the rock star”

   Broaderattach

Questions about leech onto

What does leech onto mean?

leech onto means "admire boundlessly and follow around".

Is leech onto a common word?

leech onto is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.