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Sucker

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  • A basal shoot of a tree or other plant that competes with the main stem, or a shoot from a lower limb which competes with that limb, such as certain branches of the tomato plant.
  • The organ by which some organisms, such as the leech, lamprey, and remora, attach to other organisms.
  • A slang term for a gullible person. First use in this context in 1836, etymologists believe its origin has nothing to do with oral sex, rather with either
    1. Most likely the naïveté of "suckers" or unweaned baby animals (who "suck" from their mothers' teats)
    2. The ease with which suckers are caught in their annual migrations (shine a flashlight on them at night and hook them).
  • A plastic device that grips onto smooth surfaces using a vacuum
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