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crib-sucker
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a horse that has the habit of biting his manger or other object and noisily sucking in his breath; crib-biter.
Quotations
1924
Not, perhaps, that the schoolmaster was really amatory-minded; nor that the jealous plow-boys of Mono, with rustic waggery, were justified in calling him a kisser, which was as approbrious an epithet in those days, as calling a horse a crib-sucker.