Sucker definition

sŭkər
suckered suckering suckers
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A part by which an animal sucks blood from or uses suction to cling to another animal. Leeches and remoras have suckers.
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One who is easily fooled, or gulled.
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(bot.) A subordinate shoot from a bud on the root or stem of a plant.
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A person easily cheated or taken in; dupe.
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To fool someone; to take advantage of someone.

The salesman suckered him into signing an expensive maintenance contract.

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(slang) A thing or object. Any thing or object being called attention to with emphasis, as in "this sucker".
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(US, slang) A native of Illinois.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster's Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
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A lollipop.
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A piston or piston valve, as in a suction pump or syringe.
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A tube or pipe, such as a siphon, through which something is sucked.
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(informal) To trick; dupe.

Sucker a tourist into a confidence game.

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A person or thing that sucks.
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Any of a family (Catostomidae, order Cypriniformes) of bony fishes with a mouth adapted for sucking, found in freshwater of E Asia and North America.
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A part or device used for sucking.
  • A pipe or conduit through which something is sucked.
  • The piston or piston valve of a suction pump.
  • An organ used by the leech, fluke, remora, etc. for sucking or holding fast to a surface by suction.
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A person highly susceptible to the attractions of something specified.

A sucker for old horror movies.

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Any person or thing.
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To remove suckers, or shoots, from.
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(slang) To make a dupe of; trick.
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To bear suckers, or shoots.
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A person or thing that sucks.
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An organ or body part that does the sucking.
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An animal such as the octopus and remora, which adhere to other bodies with such organs.
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A piece of candy which is sucked; a lollypop.
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(horticulture) An undesired stem growing out of the roots or lower trunk of a shrub or tree, especially from the rootstock of a grafted plant or tree.
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(UK, colloquial) A suction cup.
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A suckling animal.

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The embolus, or bucket, of a pump; also, the valve of a pump basket.

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A pipe through which anything is drawn.
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A small piece of leather, usually round, having a string attached to the center, which, when saturated with water and pressed upon a stone or other body having a smooth surface, adheres, by reason of the atmospheric pressure, with such force as to enable a considerable weight to be thus lifted by the string; formerly used by children as a plaything.
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(slang, archaic) A hard drinker; a soaker.
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To strip the suckers or shoots from; to deprive of suckers.

To sucker maize.

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One that sucks, especially an unweaned domestic animal.
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(botany) A secondary shoot produced from the base or roots of a woody plant that gives rise to a new plant.
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One that is indiscriminately attracted to something specified.

I'm always a sucker for a good crime drama.

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To strip suckers or shoots from (plants).
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To send out suckers or shoots.
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A shoot growing from the base or root of a tree or shrub and giving rise to a new plant, a clone of the plant from which it comes. The growth of suckers is a form of asexual reproduction.
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A person. Used as a generalized term of reference, often as an intensive.

He's a mean sucker.

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Any of numerous freshwater fishes of the family Catostomidae of North America and East Asia, having a thick-lipped mouth used for feeding by suction.
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(zoology) An organ or other structure adapted for sucking nourishment or for clinging to objects by suction.
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One who is easily deceived; a dupe.
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An unspecified thing. Used as a generalized term of reference, often as an intensive.
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Other Word Forms

Noun

Singular:
sucker
Plural:
suckers

Origin of sucker

  • Possibly from the Pig in a poke scam, where victims were tricked into believing they were buying a young (that is a suckling) pig. Also possibly from suckener.

    From Wiktionary

  • Possibly from German Sache (thing).

    From Wiktionary

  • From the verb suck.

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Sucker Sentence Examples

  • The body is composed of a small and limited number of segments (not more than fourteen), and there is a sucker at each end of the body.

  • A, Fasciola hepatica, from the ventral surface (X 2); the alimentary and nervous systems only shown on the left side of the figure, the excretory only on the right; a, right main branch of the intestine; c, a diverticulum; g, lateral ganglion; n, lateral nerve; o, mouth; p, pharynx; s, ventral sucker; cs, cirrus sac; d, left anterior dorsal excretory vessel; m, main vessel; v, left anterior ventral trunk; x, excretory pore.

  • The digestive system consists of a simple or bifurcated sac, opening through the mouth by means of a "pharynx bulbosus," adapted to act primarily as a sucker, and secondarily, when drawing blood, as an aspirator.

  • A, Dorsal view showing the nervous system and digestive system; a, mouth; b, pharynx; c, d, e, gut; E, post-genital union of two limbs of gut; f, excretory pore; g, vaginal pore; h, j, k, brain and nerves; 1, dorsal nerves; m, ventral nerves; n, adoral sucker; o, posterior sucker; p, hooks on posterior sucker; r, vitello-intestinal duct.

  • If successful, the larva throws off its cilia and develops a dorsal papilla, a median ventral sucker and an additional pair of lateral suckers.

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