Word Finder - sucker

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A person or animal that sucks, especially a breast or udder; especially a suckling animal, young mammal before it is weaned.

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An undesired stem growing out of the roots or lower trunk of a shrub or tree, especially from the rootstock of a grafted plant or tree.

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(by extension) A parasite; a sponger.

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An organ or body part that does the sucking; especially a round structure on the bodies of some insects, frogs, and octopuses that allows them to stick to surfaces.

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A thing that works by sucking something.

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The embolus, or bucket, of a pump; also, the valve of a pump basket.

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A pipe through which anything is drawn.

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A small piece of leather, usually round, having a string attached to the center, which, when saturated with water and pressed upon a stone or other body having a smooth surface, adheres, by reason of the atmospheric pressure, with such force as to enable a considerable weight to be thus lifted by the string; formerly used by children as a plaything.

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A suction cup.

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An animal such as the octopus and remora, which adhere to other bodies with such organs.

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Any fish in the family Catostomidae of North America and eastern Asia, which have mouths modified into downward-pointing, suckerlike structures for feeding in bottom sediments.

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A lollipop; a piece of candy which is sucked.

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A hard drinker.

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• soaker
• suck-pint

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An inhabitant of Illinois.

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• Illinoisian

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A migrant lead miner working in the Driftless Area of northwest Illinois, southwest Wisconsin, and northeast Iowa, working in summer and leaving for winter, so named because of the similarity to the migratory patterns of the North American Catostomidae.

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A person who is easily deceived, tricked or persuaded to do something; a naive person.

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One poor sucker had actually given her his life’s savings.

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• chump
• fall guy
• fish
• fool
• gull
• mark
• mug
• patsy
• rube
• schlemiel
• soft touch

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A person irresistibly attracted by something specified.

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A sucker for ghost stories.

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(British slang) The penis.

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To strip the suckers or shoots from; to deprive of suckers.

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to sucker maize

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To produce suckers, to throw up additional stems or shoots.

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To move or attach itself by means of suckers.

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To fool someone; to take advantage of someone.

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The salesman suckered him into signing an expensive maintenance contract.

The body is composed of a small and limited number of segments (not more than fourteen), and there is a sucker at each end of the body.

A, Fasciola hepatica, from the ventral surface (X 2); the alimentary and nervous systems only shown on the left side of the figure, the excretory only on the right; a, right main branch of the intestine; c, a diverticulum; g, lateral ganglion; n, lateral nerve; o, mouth; p, pharynx; s, ventral sucker; cs, cirrus sac; d, left anterior dorsal excretory vessel; m, main vessel; v, left anterior ventral trunk; x, excretory pore.

The digestive system consists of a simple or bifurcated sac, opening through the mouth by means of a "pharynx bulbosus," adapted to act primarily as a sucker, and secondarily, when drawing blood, as an aspirator.

A, Dorsal view showing the nervous system and digestive system; a, mouth; b, pharynx; c, d, e, gut; E, post-genital union of two limbs of gut; f, excretory pore; g, vaginal pore; h, j, k, brain and nerves; 1, dorsal nerves; m, ventral nerves; n, adoral sucker; o, posterior sucker; p, hooks on posterior sucker; r, vitello-intestinal duct.

If successful, the larva throws off its cilia and develops a dorsal papilla, a median ventral sucker and an additional pair of lateral suckers.

Should it, however, encounter another Diporpa, the mid-ventral sucker of either is applied to the dorsal papilla of the other, and complete fusion takes place across the junction.

The oral sucker may alone be present (Monostomidae), more usually a second is developed on the under surface, but may be mid-ventral (Distomidae) or terminal.

The principal differences are the complication of the ciliated band, the absence of the excretory organ, the great lateral compression of the body, the possession of a pair of shells protecting the sides, the presence of an organ known as the "pyriform organ," and the occurrence of a sucker in a position corresponding with the depression seen between (m) and (a) in fig.

In Bdelloidaceae this may alternate with a leech-like gait; the corona being withdrawn, the cupped end of the proboscis serves as a sucker for attachment alternately with the adherent foot, so that the animal loops its way along.

If they spring from a thick root it is not to be wantonly severed, but the soil should be removed and the sucker taken off by cutting away a clean slice of the root, which will then heal and sustain no harm.

In albuminous Monocotyledons the cotyledon itself, probably in consequence of its terminal position, is commonly the agent by which the embryo is thrust out of the seed, and it may function solely as a feeder, its extremity developing as a sucker through which the endosperm is absorbed, or it may become the first green organ, the terminal sucker dropping off with the seed-coat when the endosperm is exhausted.

Other fish native to the waters of the state are the sturgeon, catfish, perch (locally called pike), buffalo fish, flathead and sucker.

In the Argasidae the anterior portion of the dorsal surface of the body is extended forwards above the capitulum, so that this structure is concealed from above; the integument is fairly uniformly granular or coriaceous above and below; the palpi are simple and unmodified; there is no sucker beneath the claws in the adult, and there is only a slight structural difference between the sexes.

In the Ixodidae the capitulum is not overlapped by a forward extension of the dorsal area, which is smooth and firmly chitinized either in front or all over; the palpi are usually modified, that is to say, their second and third segments are usually excavated internally to form a sheath for the hypostome; there is a distinct sucker beneath the claws and the difference between the sexes is well marked, the males having the dorsal integument thickly and continuously chitinized, whereas in the females only its anterior portion bears a chitinous plate, the rest of the integument being soft to admit of its distension by the blood which is imbibed in quantity by members of this sex.

The suckers are approximately the same in size, the ventral sucker being slightly anterior to the midline of the parasite.

This is a sucker bet, because ID is not science in any way, shape or form.

The unit is installed by attaching the bracket to the windscreen by its sucker - no actual fastening is required.

The low sucker growth is also beneficial in providing a warm, sheltered microclimate.

The sucker is fixed to a bald patch on top of the skull.

This results in the two strategies alternating between receiving the maximum payoff and the sucker's payoff.

Instead we were waiting for the sucker punch, which duly arrived 60 seconds later.

Boy, I go broke And hit the skids before I take care of A rich sucker's kids.

Cercaria have an oral stylet in the oral sucker.

Note the two suckers, the ventral sucker near the genital pore, and the oral sucker near the oesophageal gland.

I laugh at any poor sucker who decides to waste their time on this map.

I'm a real sucker for anything from the 1920's or 1930's.

Her argument about " the demise of public space " starts with a real sucker punch.

We hammered Hastings at Marston Road only to drop 2 points to a late sucker punch.

With the Reds pushing forward the were hit by the sucker punch with a minute to go.

It spreads rapidly by sucker ing, to form dense thickets beneath woodland trees or out in the open.

A second sucker of variable size and shape lies behind the oral one.

This tapeworm has broad segments and an unarmed scolex with a small apical sucker.

He 's also a sucker for the sob stories he hears helping out at his local legal advice center pro bono !

Famous for the line, There 's a sucker born every minute.

I 'm a real sucker for anything from the 1920's or 1930's.

Each pair of sucker cups is attached to each side of window glass and held by looping cables over door frame and forming handle.

Here is list of sucker bets found on a crap game along with their house edge.

It most affects lush new growth and sucker growth and the young growth of pollarded planes is often affected.

Wilson 's latest labor of love Sandy Wilson is evidently a sucker for punishment.

I really am a sucker for this kind of sweet romantic comedy.

On the very next cruise the female was sighted swimming to shore with a lump sucker fish.

I am a sucker and have taken in a few cats over the past year.

If you're typically a sucker for great packaging, chances are you'll fall prey right away.

Since High School Musical and its sequels, Hudgens has appeared in films such as Bandslam and Sucker Punch.

The graphics will impress you, the controls will sucker you in, and you might just find yourself downloading the music since it's so catchy.

It was also considered necessary to shame and humiliate the thumb sucker.

Sporting a medium length style with sharp edges and unique color, you're a sucker for all shift dresses and anything geometric.

Problem is, there are such minuscule amounts of everything it doesn't have one iota of effect on anything except to sucker you into paying more for a clever gimmick.

Aries is sucker for an under dog; if he sees you putting down the people you come into contact with, he’ll seriouslybegin to question what he saw in you in the first place.

El Chupacabra, which literally translates to "goat sucker", is the popular name for the elusive beast due to the nature of the attacks on domestic animals.