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suck·er       (sŭk'ər)  Pronunciation Key 
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.

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