Definition of sucker

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Sucker (n.) 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; -- used by children as a plaything..

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Sucker :: Suckering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sucke.
Lucernaria :: Lucernaria (n.) A genus of acalephs, having a bell-shaped body with eight groups of short tentacles around the margin. It attaches itself by a sucker at the base of the pedicel..
Puck :: Puck (n.) The goatsucker.
Bloodsucker :: Bloodsucker (n.) A hard and exacting master, landlord, or money lender; an extortioner..
Sucker :: Sucker (n.) A parasite; a sponger. See def. 6, above..
Nyctibune :: Nyctibune (n.) A South American bird of the genus Nyctibius, allied to the goatsuckers..
Acetabulifera :: Acetabulifera (n. pl.) The division of Cephalopoda in which the arms are furnished with cup-shaped suckers, as the cuttlefishes, squids, and octopus; the Dibranchiata. See Cephalopoda..
Strove :: Strisores (n. pl.) A division of passerine birds including the humming birds, swifts, and goatsuckers. It is now generally considered an artificial group..
Spearfish :: Spearfish (n.) The carp sucker.
Vampire :: Vampire (n.) Fig.: One who lives by preying on others; an extortioner; a bloodsucker.
Wind-sucker :: Wind-sucker (n.) A horse given to wind-suckin.
Sucker :: Sucker (v. t.) To strip off the suckers or shoots from; to deprive of suckers; as, to sucker maize..
Xenopterygii :: Xenopterygii (n. pl.) A suborder of fishes including Gobiesox and allied genera. These fishes have soft-rayed fins, and a ventral sucker supported in front by the pectoral fins. They are destitute of scales..
Surcloyed :: Surcle (n.) A little shoot; a twig; a sucker.
Calycozoa :: Calycozoa (n. pl.) A group of acalephs of which Lucernaria is the type. The body is cup-shaped with eight marginal lobes bearing clavate tentacles. An aboral sucker serves for attachment. The interior is divided into four large compartments. See Lucernarida.
Spinner :: Spinner (n.) A goatsucker; -- so called from the peculiar noise it makes when darting through the air.
Nightjar :: Nightjar (n.) A goatsucker, esp. the European species. See Illust. of Goatsucker..
Whip-poor-will :: Whip-poor-will (n.) An American bird (Antrostomus vociferus) allied to the nighthawk and goatsucker; -- so called in imitation of the peculiar notes which it utters in the evening.
Embolus :: Embolus (n.) Something inserted, as a wedge; the piston or sucker of a pump or syringe..
Sucker :: Sucker (n.) A greenhorn; one easily gulled.
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