sucker
IPA: sˈʌkɝ
noun
- A person or animal that sucks, especially a breast or udder; especially a suckling animal, young mammal before it is weaned.
- (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.
- (by extension) A parasite; a sponger.
- An organ or body part that does the sucking; especially a round structure on the bodies of some insects, frogs, and octopuses that allows them to stick to surfaces.
- A thing that works by sucking something.
- The embolus, or bucket, of a pump; also, the valve of a pump basket.
- A pipe through which anything is drawn.
- 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.
- (Britain, colloquial) A suction cup.
- An animal such as the octopus and remora, which adhere to other bodies with such organs.
- (ichthyology) Any fish in the family Catostomidae of North America and eastern Asia, which have mouths modified into downward-pointing, suckerlike structures for feeding in bottom sediments.
- (Upper Midwestern US, informal) A lollipop; a piece of candy which is sucked.
- (slang, archaic) A hard drinker.
- (US, obsolete) An inhabitant of Illinois.
- (US, obsolete) A migrant lead miner working in the Driftless Area of northwest Illinois, southwest Wisconsin, and northeast Iowa, working in summer and leaving for winter, so named because of the similarity to the migratory patterns of the North American Catostomidae.
- (US, slang) A person who is easily deceived, tricked or persuaded to do something; a naive or gullible person.
- (informal) A person irresistibly attracted by something specified.
- (obsolete, vulgar, British slang) The penis.
- (slang, emphatic) Any thing or object.
- (slang, derogatory) A person.
- (US, slang, dated, archaic) A native or denizen of Illinois.
verb
- (horticulture, transitive) To strip the suckers or shoots from; to deprive of suckers.
- (horticulture, intransitive) To produce suckers; to throw up additional stems or shoots.
- (intransitive) To move or attach oneself by means of suckers.
- (transitive, informal) To fool someone; to take advantage of someone.
- (transitive, informal, usually with into) To lure someone.
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Examples of "sucker" in Sentences
- Who is this sucker
- Call me a sucker for it.
- She is known as a sucker.
- He tries not to be a sucker.
- The man denies that he is a sucker.
- We used to call you forefinger sucker.
- She knows that she is a sucker herself.
- That sucker punch brings down the quality of the article.
- Detach the sucker and its roots from the main trunk, and replant.
- I also give my consent to the participation in the activity of the sucker.
- This sucker is about the strongest thing we can build out of wood, and most cost effective structure known to man.
- If any of those poor romantic fools would have driven hours north to the Hopi reservation and doubled back, the word sucker fizzing like acid in their bellies as they sneaked glances across the car at the woman they loved, knowing she was going home to another man.
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