Bine vs. Sucker — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Bine and Sucker
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Bine
The flexible twining or climbing stem of certain plants, such as the hop, woodbine, or bindweed.
Sucker
One that sucks, especially an unweaned domestic animal.
Bine
(botany) A climbing plant which climbs by its shoots growing in a helix around a support (distinct from a vine, which climbs using tendrils or suckers).
Sucker
One who is easily deceived; a dupe.
Bine
Cigarette
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Sucker
One that is indiscriminately attracted to something specified
I'm always a sucker for a good crime drama.
Bine
The winding or twining stem of a hop vine or other climbing plant.
Sucker
An unspecified thing. Used as a generalized term of reference, often as an intensive
"our goal of getting that sucker on the air before old age took the both of us" (Linda Ellerbee).
Bine
European twining plant whose flowers are used chiefly to flavor malt liquors; cultivated in America
Sucker
A person. Used as a generalized term of reference, often as an intensive
He's a mean sucker.
Sucker
A lollipop.
Sucker
A piston or piston valve, as in a suction pump or syringe.
Sucker
A tube or pipe, such as a siphon, through which something is sucked.
Sucker
Any of numerous freshwater fishes of the family Catostomidae of North America and East Asia, having a thick-lipped mouth used for feeding by suction.
Sucker
(Zoology) An organ or other structure adapted for sucking nourishment or for clinging to objects by suction.
Sucker
(Botany) A secondary shoot produced from the base or roots of a woody plant that gives rise to a new plant.
Sucker
To strip suckers or shoots from (plants).
Sucker
(Informal) To trick; dupe
Sucker a tourist into a confidence game.
Sucker
To send out suckers or shoots.
Sucker
A person or animal that sucks, especially a breast or udder; especially a suckling animal, young mammal before it is weaned.
Sucker
(horticulture) An undesired stem growing out of the roots or lower trunk of a shrub or tree, especially from the rootstock of a grafted plant or tree.
Sucker
(by extension) A parasite; a sponger.
Sucker
An organ or body part that does the sucking; especially a round structure on the bodies of some insects, frogs, and octopuses that allows them to stick to surfaces.
Sucker
A thing that works by sucking something.
Sucker
The embolus, or bucket, of a pump; also, the valve of a pump basket.
Sucker
A pipe through which anything is drawn.
Sucker
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.
Sucker
A suction cup.
Sucker
An animal such as the octopus and remora, which adhere to other bodies with such organs.
Sucker
(ichthyology) 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.
Sucker
A lollipop; a piece of candy which is sucked.
Sucker
A hard drinker.
Sucker
An inhabitant of Illinois.
Sucker
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.
Sucker
A person who is easily deceived, tricked or persuaded to do something; a naive or gullible person.
One poor sucker had actually given her his life’s savings.
Sucker
(informal) A person irresistibly attracted by something specified.
I'm a sucker for ghost stories.
He must be a sucker for punishment to try to climb that mountain barefoot.
Sucker
The penis.
Sucker
Any thing or object.
See if you can get that sucker working again.
Sucker
A person.
Sucker
To strip the suckers or shoots from; to deprive of suckers.
To sucker maize
Sucker
To produce suckers; to throw up additional stems or shoots.
Sucker
(intransitive) To move or attach oneself by means of suckers.
Sucker
To fool someone; to take advantage of someone.
The salesman suckered him into signing an expensive maintenance contract.
Sucker
To lure someone.
Sucker
One who, or that which, sucks; esp., one of the organs by which certain animals, as the octopus and remora, adhere to other bodies.
Sucker
A suckling; a sucking animal.
Sucker
The embolus, or bucket, of a pump; also, the valve of a pump basket.
Sucker
A pipe through which anything is drawn.
Sucker
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.
Sucker
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.
Sucker
Any one of numerous species of North American fresh-water cyprinoid fishes of the family Catostomidæ; 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.
Sucker
A parasite; a sponger. See def. 6, above.
They who constantly converse with men far above their estates shall reap shame and loss thereby; if thou payest nothing, they will count thee a sucker, no branch.
Sucker
A hard drinker; a soaker.
Sucker
A greenhorn; someone easily cheated, gulled, or deceived.
Sucker
A nickname applied to a native of Illinois.
Sucker
Any thing or person; - usually implying annoyance or dislike; as, I went to change the blade and cut my finger on the sucker.
Sucker
A person strongly attracted to something; - usually used with for; as, he's a sucker for tall blondes.
Sucker
To strip off the suckers or shoots from; to deprive of suckers; as, to sucker maize.
Sucker
To cheat or deceive (a gullible person); to make a sucker of (someone).
Sucker
To form suckers; as, corn suckers abundantly.
Sucker
A person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of
Sucker
A shoot arising from a plant's roots
Sucker
A drinker who sucks (as at a nipple or through a straw)
Sucker
Flesh of any of numerous North American food fishes with toothless jaws
Sucker
Hard candy on a stick
Sucker
An organ specialized for sucking nourishment or for adhering to objects by suction
Sucker
Mostly North American freshwater fishes with a thick-lipped mouth for feeding by suction; related to carps
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