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Sucker

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1772, OED Evaluation: N/A

Any fish having a conformation of the lips which suggests that it feeds by suction; esp. North American cyprinoid fishes of the family Catostomidæ.

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Speaker: We- and when we were kids we used to go sucker-fishing. Interviewer: Oh, what's that? Speaker: Ah, th-- the- they're fish.
A specific type of fish
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Pike, bass, um, my mom- we- she caught a sucker fish one time. Yeah, like a- it was like a- I think it's called a ping.
A specific type of fish
Speaker: Ping, it's like a catfish. It had whiskers and it looked all like- Interviewer: Yeah? Speaker: Sucker-ish, fishy.
A specific type of fish
Speaker: Yeah, 'cause eating a sucker fish is weird. Interviewer: It's kind-of gross.
A specific type of fish
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Twice today- Calathumpian, yeah I have two and I can't remember. Ask Lue, he'll know what a Calathumpian is. And see when they used to- this time of year, they'd go sucker fishing.
A specific type of fish
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Yeah, dad used to grow some good potatoes here. He used to grow some good pees and goa-- oats too because he had lots of cattle eh? You'd have big piles of manure. Sucker fishing time is when we always drew the manure out and then you had to feed the sucks to eat them.
A specific type of fish
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So if you're sitting here a lot and reading and you could be watching T-V or you could be reading a book or doing a puzzle and you go to sleep and if there is a build up, you want the sucker at the same level as what you're breathing or sleeping because it'll go off.
A specific type of fish
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There was the odd mud pout and then the spring, there was quite a- we got quite a few sucker out of there in the spring, yeah. And I don't care, they talk about their pickerel and their bass and-all-this but you get a sucker and clean it up well out of that cold water, I think it's just as good.
A specific type of fish
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That's right. And, ah, anyway the- this- w-- we used to spear sucker fish there and bring home, you know, a couple hundred of them (laughs) and we got a- a tr-- a fellow from Tat-- ah, from Tatlock, an Armitage, ah- ah, Johnny and Sammy-Armitage used to come up and, ah- with a tractor and they had a big box on the back of it and we'd go back
A specific type of fish
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I remember being a kid there, and Christmases and playing on the flats down behind where the river was. It wasn't cleaned up or cleared up, it was all bush down in there, forts and sucker fishing and-things-like-that. Lots- lots of sucker fishing. We used to have great fun back in those days when take three-inch long firecrackers, kids could buy the big firecrackers, you get a dead sucker- or sucker you just caught and stick it down the sucker's mouth and light it off, you blown it up, see what the sucker look like.
A specific type of fish
I remember being a kid there, and Christmases and playing on the flats down behind where the river was. It wasn't cleaned up or cleared up, it was all bush down in there, forts and sucker fishing and-things-like-that. Lots- lots of sucker fishing. We used to have great fun back in those days when take three-inch long firecrackers, kids could buy the big firecrackers, you get a dead sucker- or sucker you just caught and stick it down the sucker's mouth and light it off, you blown it up, see what the sucker look like.
A specific type of fish
Um, me, I never really got in trouble. Other than sucker fishing too late or staying out too late at night at that fort, building a fort, working on this or that.
A specific type of fish
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Mm, as long as the sucker's good in it, ah, we didn't have to prime it because it would hold the water the same as a- a steel pump,
A specific type of fish
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Speaker 1: That didn't happen too often but once in a while that did happen. Um, and sometimes the one teacher took us sucker fishing. Interviewer: What's sucker fishing? Speaker 1: In the spring the suckers run up the creeks and-that. Speaker 2: And they're fish. Speaker 1: And they're fish about yay long. Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker 1: And, ah, that was- we had Arbor-Day when- I think if we had Arbor-Day we had to clean up the yard and we got that done in time then we got to go sucker fishing.
A specific type of fish
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My sisters helped out more in the house because I was always with my father, right? We'd go over to the Woodville sales barns. He'd be showing um- we had a lot of pigs too as well as cattle and he'd be um selling them over there. Yeah. Yeah and I can remember when I was a kid we'd go sucker fishing.
A specific type of fish