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suckfish

[suhk-fish]

suck·fish

[suhk-fish]
noun, plural (especially collectively) -fish, (especially referring to two or more kinds or species) -fish·es.
1.
remora (def. 1).
2.
a clingfish.

Origin:
1745–55; suck + fish
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Suckfish is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.
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suckerfish or suckfish (ˈsʌkəˌfɪʃ)
 
n , pl -fish, -fishes
other names for remora
 
[C18: so called because of the suction disc on its head]
 
suckfish or suckfish
 
n
 
[C18: so called because of the suction disc on its head]

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