If you go to a computer programmer without any specifications, wireframes, designs, or comps on how your site should look or function, then you might as well have SUCKER written across your forehead.
If roots are able to reach the soil from the graft, the tree will always have sucker shoots growing from the base that will weaken the tree.
Diving beetles are so streamlined that the males of some species have sucker-like cups on the first pair of legs so that they can hold on to the smooth surface of the female during mating.
Benefiting from a bout of heartache, Blake's intimate record requires patience and a willingness to wallow – unlike J Cole's Born Sinner, which might not have sucker-punched its way in Yeezus-style but had enough of College Dropout Kanye to elate, with samples of A Tribe Called Quest on the track Forbidden Fruit being a particular highlight.
Remora fish have suckers on their heads so they can affix themselves to bull sharks' underbellies.
Typically, banks and building societies offer attractive, market-leading rates and then, once they have suckered savers in, slash the rates, leaving millions to receive almost no returns on their nest eggs.
Despite what popular culture may have you believe, octopuses do not have tentacles (tentacles are appendages in addition to the eight arms that only have suckers at the tips).
The scheme may have suckered in as many as 6,000 investors from across the country, but mainly from Long Island, according to Zamansky.
They have suckers at both ends of their bodies, and use these to move rather like inchworms.
Adult monogeneans have large attachment organs at the rear, haptors (Greek ἅπτειν, haptein, means "catch"), which have suckers, clamps, and hooks.
A few species with stubby bodies filter feed and have suckers at the front and back ends, with which they attach to a host.
