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thumbsuckers

thumbsuckers is the plural of thumbsucker.

Meaning of thumbsucker

Noun

thumbsucker (plural thumbsuckers)

  1. Someone who sucks their thumb.
  2. (US, slang) A piece of serious journalism that explains the background of current events and interprets them in a manner comforting to the intended readers.

Questions about thumbsuckers

What is thumbsuckers the plural of?
Thumbsuckers is the plural of thumbsucker.

Words near thumbsuckers in the dictionary

  1. thumbstick
  2. thumbsticks
  3. thumbstroke
  4. thumbstrokes
  5. thumbsucker
  6. thumbsuckers
  7. thumbsucking
  8. thumbtack
  9. thumbtacked
  10. thumbtacking
  11. thumbtacks

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Adapted from Wiktionary: thumbsuckers (page history and authors); thumbsucker (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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