 the goats), and so "chupacabra" without an s is the singular in English, even though in Spanish "chupacabra" could literally be construed as a creature that sucks only one single goat.In the names of sports teams, sometimes a noun will be given a regular plural in "-s" even though that noun in normal use has an irregular plural form (a particular case of headless nouns as described above).For example, there are teams called the Miami Marlins and the Toronto Maple Leafs, even though the word "marlin" normally has its plural identical to the singular and the plural of "leaf" is "leaves".