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sucker
sucker is a 6-letter English word with 24 senses as noun, transitive verb, and intransitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: One who, or that which, sucks; esp., one of the organs by which certain animals, as the octopus and remora, adhere to other bodies. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 14 · 24 senses
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- 1noun
One who, or that which, sucks; esp., one of the organs by which certain animals, as the octopus and remora, adhere to other bodies.
- 2noun
A suckling; a sucking animal.
- 3noun
The embolus, or bucket, of a pump; also, the valve of a pump basket.
- 4noun
A pipe through which anything is drawn.
- 5noun
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.
- 6noun
A shoot from the roots or lower part of the stem of a plant; -- so called, perhaps, from diverting nourishment from the body of the plant.
- 7noun
Any one of numerous species of North American fresh-water cyprinoid fishes of the family Catostomidae; so called because the lips are protrusile. The flesh is coarse, and they are of little value as food. The most common species of the Eastern United States are the northern sucker (Catostomus Commersoni), the white sucker (C. teres), the hog sucker (C. nigricans), and the chub, or sweet sucker (Erimyzon sucetta). Some of the large Western species are called buffalo fish, red horse, black horse, and suckerel.
- 8noun
The remora.
- 9noun
The lumpfish.
- 10noun
The hagfish, or myxine.
- 11noun
A California food fish (Menticirrus undulatus) closely allied to the kingfish (a); -- called also bagre.
- 12noun
A parasite; a sponger. See def. 6, above.
- 13noun
A hard drinker; a soaker.
- 14noun
A greenhorn; one easily gulled.
- 15noun
A nickname applied to a native of Illinois.
- 16transitive verb
To strip off the suckers or shoots from; to deprive of suckers; as, to sucker maize.
- 17intransitive verb
To form suckers; as, corn suckers abundantly.
- 18noun
mostly North American freshwater fishes with a thick-lipped mouth for feeding by suction; related to carps
- 19noun
an organ specialized for sucking nourishment or for adhering to objects by suction
- 20noun
hard candy on a stick
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- 21noun
flesh of any of numerous North American food fishes with toothless jaws
- 22noun
a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of
- 23noun
a drinker who sucks (as at a nipple or through a straw)
- 24noun
a shoot arising from a plant's roots
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