SUCKER

sucker

(noun) mostly North American freshwater fishes with a thick-lipped mouth for feeding by suction; related to carps

sucker

(noun) an organ specialized for sucking nourishment or for adhering to objects by suction

lollipop, sucker, all-day sucker

(noun) hard candy on a stick

sucker

(noun) flesh of any of numerous North American food fishes with toothless jaws

chump, fool, gull, mark, patsy, fall guy, sucker, soft touch, mug

(noun) a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of

sucker

(noun) a drinker who sucks (as at a nipple or through a straw)

sucker

(noun) a shoot arising from a plant’s roots

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology 1

Noun

sucker (plural suckers)

A person or animal that sucks, especially a breast or udder; especially a suckling animal, young mammal before it is weaned. [from late 14th century]

(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. [from 1570s]

(by extension) A parasite; a sponger.

Synonym: Thesaurus:scrounger

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.

(British, colloquial) A suction cup.

An animal such as the octopus and remora, which adhere to other bodies with such organs.

(fish) 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. [from 1750s]

(American, informal) A piece of candy which is sucked. [from 1820s]

Synonym: lollipop

(slang, archaic) A hard drinker.

Synonyms: soaker, suck-pint, Thesaurus:drunkard

(American, obsolete) An inhabitant of Illinois.

Synonym: Illinoisian

(American, 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.

(American, slang) A person who is easily deceived, tricked or persuaded to do something; a naive person. [from 1830s]

Synonyms: chump, fall guy, fish, fool, gull, mark, mug, patsy, rube, schlemiel, soft touch, Thesaurus:dupe

(informal) A person irresistibly attracted by something specified.

(obsolete, vulgar, British slang) The penis.

Synonym: Thesaurus:penis

Holonyms

• suckerdom

Verb

sucker (third-person singular simple present suckers, present participle suckering, simple past and past participle suckered)

(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 itself by means of suckers.

(transitive, informal) To fool someone; to take advantage of someone.

Etymology 2

Noun

sucker (plural suckers)

(slang, emphatic) Any thing or object.

(slang, derogatory) A person.

Usage notes

Usually preceded by a demonstrative adjective (this, that, these, those).

Synonyms

• (thing or object): thing, object

Anagrams

• Uckers

Noun

Sucker (plural Suckers)

(US, slang, dated, archaic) A native or denizen of Illinois.

Anagrams

• Uckers

Source: Wiktionary

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Suck"er, n.

1. One who, or that which, sucks; esp., one of the organs by which certain animals, as the octopus and remora, adhere to other bodies.

2. A suckling; a sucking animal. Beau. & Fl.

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

4. A pipe through which anything is drawn.

5. 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; -- used by children as a plaything.

6. (Bot.)

Definition: A shoot from the roots or lower part of the stem of a plant; -- so called, perhaps, from diverting nourishment from the body of the plant.

7. (Zoöl.) (a) Any one of numerous species of North American fresh-water cyprinoid fishes of the family Catostomidæ; so called because the lips are protrusile. The flesh is coarse, and they are of little value as food. The most common species of the Eastern United States are the northern sucker (Catostomus Commersoni), the white sucker (C. teres), the hog sucker (C. nigricans), and the chub, or sweet sucker (Erimyzon sucetta). Some of the large Western species are called buffalo fish, red horse, black horse, and suckerel. (b) The remora. (c) The lumpfish. (d) The hagfish, or myxine. (e) A California food fish (Menticirrus undulatus) closely allied to the kingfish (a); -- called also bagre.

8. A parasite; a sponger. See def. 6, above. They who constantly converse with men far above their estates shall reap shame and loss thereby; if thou payest nothing, they will count thee a sucker, no branch. Fuller.

9. A hard drinker; a soaker. [Slang]

10. A greenhorn; one easily gulled. [Slang, U.S.]

11. A nickname applied to a native of Illinois. [U. S.] Carp sucker, Cherry sucker, etc. See under Carp, Cherry, etc.

– Sucker fish. See Sucking fish, under Sucking.

– Sucker rod, a pump rod. See under Pump.

– Sucker tube (Zoöl.), one of the external ambulacral tubes of an echinoderm, -- usually terminated by a sucker and used for locomotion. Called also sucker foot. See Spatangoid.

Suck"er, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Suckered; p. pr. & vb. n. Suckering.]

Definition: To strip off the suckers or shoots from; to deprive of suckers; as, to sucker maize.

Suck"er, v. i.

Definition: To form suckers; as, corn suckers abundantly.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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