sucker | (noun) mostly North American freshwater fishes with a thick-lipped mouth for feeding by suction; related to carps | - |
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(noun) an organ specialized for sucking nourishment or for adhering to objects by suction | - |
(noun) hard candy on a stick | Synonyms: all-day sucker, lollipop |
(noun) flesh of any of numerous North American food fishes with toothless jaws | - |
(noun) a drinker who sucks (as at a nipple or through a straw) | - |
(noun) a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of | Synonyms: chump, fall guy, fool, gull, mark, mug, patsy, soft touch |
(noun) a shoot arising from a plant's roots | - |
suckerfish | (noun) marine fishes with a flattened elongated body and a sucking disk on the head for attaching to large fish or moving objects | Synonyms: remora, sucking fish |
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tacker | (noun) a hand-held machine for driving staples home | Synonyms: staple gun, staplegun |
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(noun) a sewer who fastens a garment with long loose stitches | Synonyms: baster |
(noun) a worker who fastens things by tacking them (as with tacks or by spotwelding) | - |
ticker | (noun) a character printer that automatically prints stock quotations on ticker tape | Synonyms: stock ticker |
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(noun) a small portable timepiece | Synonyms: watch |
(noun) the hollow muscular organ located behind the sternum and between the lungs; its rhythmic contractions move the blood through the body | Synonyms: heart, pump |
tracker | (noun) someone who tracks down game | - |
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trafficker | (noun) someone who promotes or exchanges goods or services for money | Synonyms: marketer, seller, vender, vendor |
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tricker | (noun) someone who plays practical jokes on others | Synonyms: cut-up, hoaxer, practical joker, prankster, trickster |
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trickery | (noun) the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them) | Synonyms: chicane, chicanery, guile, shenanigan, wile |
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(noun) verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way | Synonyms: hanky panky, hocus-pocus, jiggery-pokery, skulduggery, skullduggery, slickness |
trucker | (noun) someone who drives a truck as an occupation | Synonyms: teamster, truck driver |
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tucker | (noun) a detachable yoke of linen or lace worn over the breast of a low-cut dress | - |
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(noun) a sewer who tucks | - |
(verb) wear out completely | Synonyms: beat, exhaust, tucker out, wash up |
tuckerbag | (noun) a bag used for carrying food | Synonyms: tucker-bag |
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whacker | (noun) something especially big or impressive of its kind | Synonyms: whopper |
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whalesucker | (noun) large blue Pacific remora that attaches to whales and dolphins | Synonyms: Remilegia australis, whale sucker |
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whicker | (noun) the characteristic sounds made by a horse | Synonyms: neigh, nicker, whinny |
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(verb) make a characteristic sound, of a horse | Synonyms: neigh, nicker, whinny |
wicker | (noun) work made of interlaced slender branches (especially willow branches) | Synonyms: caning, wickerwork |
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(noun) slender flexible branches or twigs (especially of willow or some canes); used for wickerwork | - |
wickerwork | (noun) work made of interlaced slender branches (especially willow branches) | Synonyms: caning, wicker |
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woodpecker | (noun) bird with strong claws and a stiff tail adapted for climbing and a hard chisel-like bill for boring into wood for insects | Synonyms: pecker, peckerwood |
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wrecker | (noun) a truck equipped to hoist and pull wrecked cars (or to remove cars from no-parking zones) | Synonyms: tow car, tow truck |
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(noun) someone who commits sabotage or deliberately causes wrecks | Synonyms: diversionist, saboteur |
(noun) someone who demolishes or dismantles buildings as a job | - |