sucker : Idioms & Phrases

• noun hard candy on a stick
  sucker; lollipop.
  

WordNet

• (Zoöl.), a name given to several species of fresh-water fishes of the genus Carpiodes in the United States; called also quillback.

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• etc. See under Carp, Cherry, etc.

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• (Zoöl.), the European spotted flycatcher (Musicapa grisola); called also cherry chopper cherry snipe .

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• (Zoöl.), a fresh-water fish of the United States (Erimyzon sucetta); called also creekfish.

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• noun widely distributed in warm clear shallow streams
  Hypentelium nigricans; hog molly.
  

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• noun North American sucker with reddish fins
  redhorse.
  

WordNet

• the sandnecker.

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• (Zoöl.), any one of several species of small American woodpeckers of the genus Sphyrapicus, especially the yellow-bellied woodpecker (S. varius) of the Eastern United States. They are so named because they puncture the bark of trees and feed upon the sap. The name is loosely applied to other woodpeckers.

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• any marine leech of the genus Pontobdella, parasitic on skates.

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• . See Sucking fish, under Sucking.

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• noun an unexpected punch
  

WordNet

• a pump rod. See under Pump.

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• (Zoöl.), one of the external ambulacral tubes of an echinoderm, usually terminated by a sucker and used for locomotion. Called also sucker foot. See Spatangoid.

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• (Zoöl.), a remora (Remora brachyptera) which attaches itself to the swordfish.

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• noun large blue Pacific remora that attaches to whales and dolphins
  whalesucker; Remilegia australis.
  

WordNet

• . (Zoöl.) (a) The common sucker. (b) The common red horse (Moxostoma macrolepidotum).

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Wind"-suck`er noun

Definitions

1. (Far.) A horse given to wind-sucking Law.
2. (Zoöl.) The kestrel. B. Jonson.

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• (Zoöl.), the yaffle.

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