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sucker

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suck⋅er

  [suhk-er]
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–noun
1. a person or thing that sucks.
2. Informal. a person easily cheated, deceived, or imposed upon.
3. an infant or a young animal that is suckled, esp. a suckling pig.
4. a part or organ of an animal adapted for sucking nourishment, or for adhering to an object as by suction.
5. any of several freshwater, mostly North American food fishes of the family Catostomidae, having thick lips: some are now rare.
6. Informal. a lollipop.
7. the piston of a pump that works by suction, or the valve of such a piston.
8. a pipe or tube through which something is drawn or sucked.
9. Botany. a shoot rising from a subterranean stem or root.
10. Informal. a person attracted to something as indicated: He's a sucker for new clothes.
11. Slang. any person or thing: He's one of those smart, handsome suckers everybody likes. They're good boots, but the suckers pinch my feet.
–verb (used with object)
12. Slang. to make a sucker of; fool; hoodwink: another person suckered by a con artist.
–verb (used without object)
13. to send out suckers or shoots, as a plant.
Origin:
1350–1400; 1835–45 for def. 2; ME; see suck, -er 1

Related forms:
suck⋅er⋅like, adjective
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suck·er   (sŭk'ər)   
n.  

  1. One that sucks, especially an unweaned domestic animal.

  2. Informal

    1. One who is easily deceived; a dupe.

    2. One that is indiscriminately attracted to something specified: "The nation's capital is a sucker for a symbolic gesture" (Jonathan Alter).

    3. An unspecified thing. Used as a generalized term of reference, often as an intensive: "our goal of getting that sucker on the air before old age took the both of us" (Linda Ellerbee).

    4. A person. Used as a generalized term of reference, often as an intensive: He's a mean sucker.

    5. A piston or piston valve, as in a suction pump or syringe.

    6. A tube or pipe, such as a siphon, through which something is sucked.

  3. Slang

    1. An unspecified thing. Used as a generalized term of reference, often as an intensive: "our goal of getting that sucker on the air before old age took the both of us" (Linda Ellerbee).

    2. A person. Used as a generalized term of reference, often as an intensive: He's a mean sucker.

    3. A piston or piston valve, as in a suction pump or syringe.

    4. A tube or pipe, such as a siphon, through which something is sucked.

  4. A lollipop.

    1. A piston or piston valve, as in a suction pump or syringe.

    2. A tube or pipe, such as a siphon, through which something is sucked.

  6. Any of numerous chiefly North American freshwater fishes of the family Catostomidae, having a toothless jaw and a thick-lipped mouth adapted for feeding by suction.

  7. Zoology An organ or other structure adapted for sucking nourishment or for clinging to objects by suction.

  8. Botany A secondary shoot produced from the base or roots of a woody plant that gives rise to a new plant.

v.   suck·ered, suck·er·ing, suck·ers

v.   tr.

  1. To strip suckers or shoots from (plants).

  2. Informal To trick; dupe: sucker a tourist into a confidence game.

v.   intr. Botany
To send out suckers or shoots.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Slang Dictionary
sucker

  1. n.
    and sucka. a dupe; an easy mark. : See if you can sell that sucker the Brooklyn Bridge.
  2. tv.
    to trick or victimize someone. : That crook suckered me. I should have known better.
  3. n.
    an annoying person. (Also a rude term of address.) : I am really sick of that sucker hanging around here.
  4. n.
    a gadget; a thing. : Now, you put this little sucker right into this slot.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

sucker 
"young mammal before it is weaned," 1382, from suck. Slang meaning "person who is easily deceived" is first attested 1836, Amer.Eng., on notion of naivete; the verb in this sense is from 1939. But another theory traces the slang meaning to the fish called a sucker (1753), on the notion of being easy to catch in their annual migrations. Meaning "lollipop" is from 1823. Suckerpunch first recorded 1947.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: suck·er
Pronunciation: 's&k-&r
Function: noun
1 : an organ in various animals (as a trematode or tapeworm) used foradhering or holding
2 : a mouth (as of a leech) adapted for sucking or adhering
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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Science Dictionary
sucker   (sŭk'ər)  Pronunciation Key 

  1. A part by which an animal sucks blood from or uses suction to cling to another animal. Leeches and remoras have suckers.

  2. 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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