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; formerly used by children as a plaything.
An animal such as the octopus and remora, which adhere to other bodies with such organs.
Any fish in the family Catostomidae of North America and eastern Asia, which have mouths modified into downward-pointing, suckerlike structures for feeding in bottom sediments.
A migrant lead miner working in the Driftless Area of northwest Illinois, southwest Wisconsin, and northeast Iowa, working in summer and leaving for winter, so named because of the similarity to the migratory patterns of the North American Catostomidae.
From Middle English souker, sokere, sukkere, soukere, equivalent to suck + -er. Compare Saterland Frisian Suuger, West Frisian sûker, Dutch zuiger, German Sauger.
Possibly from German Sache ("thing").
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