suckers
noun
Meaning
- A person or animal that sucks, especially a breast or udder; especially a suckling animal, young mammal before it is weaned.
- 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.
- (by extension) A parasite; a sponger.
- 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.
- A thing that works by sucking something.
- The embolus, or bucket, of a pump; also, the valve of a pump basket.
- Any thing or object.
- A person.
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