sucker

suck·er  (skr)

n.

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

2. Informal

a. One who is easily deceived; a dupe.

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

3. Slang

a. 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.

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

4. A lollipop.

5.

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

b. 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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sucker

Noun

1. Slang a person who is easily deceived or swindled

2. Slang a person who cannot resist something: he's a sucker for fast cars

3. Zool a part of the body of certain animals that is used for sucking or sticking to a surface

4. a rubber cup-shaped device attached to objects allowing them to stick to a surface by suction

5. Bot a strong shoot coming from a mature plant's root or the base of its main stem

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sucker  (skr)

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.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	sucker - a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of chump, fall guy, gull, patsy, soft touch, mug, fool, mark dupe, victim - a person who is tricked or swindled
	2.	sucker - a shoot arising from a plant's roots shoot - a new branch
	3.	sucker - a drinker who sucks (as at a nipple or through a straw) drinker - a person who drinks liquids
	4.	sucker - flesh of any of numerous North American food fishes with toothless jaws sucker - mostly North American freshwater fishes with a thick-lipped mouth for feeding by suction; related to carps freshwater fish - flesh of fish from fresh water used as food
	5.	sucker - hard candy on a stick all-day sucker, lollipop candy, confect - a rich sweet made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts
	6.	sucker - an organ specialized for sucking nourishment or for adhering to objects by suction cupule - a sucker on the feet of certain flies organ - a fully differentiated structural and functional unit in an animal that is specialized for some particular function
	7.	sucker - mostly North American freshwater fishes with a thick-lipped mouth for feeding by suction; related to carps Catostomidae, family Catostomidae - suckers; closely related to the family Cyprinidae catostomid - a cypriniform fish of the family Catostomidae buffalo fish, buffalofish - any of several large suckers of the Mississippi valley hog molly, hog sucker, Hypentelium nigricans - widely distributed in warm clear shallow streams redhorse, redhorse sucker - North American sucker with reddish fins sucker - flesh of any of numerous North American food fishes with toothless jaws

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sucker

noun (Slang) fool, mug Brit. (slang) dupe, victim, butt, sap (slang) pushover (slang) sitting duck (informal) sitting target, putz U.S. (slang) cat's paw, easy game or mark (informal) nerd or nurd (slang) dorba or dorb Austral. (slang) bogan Austral. (slang)

Translations

sucker [ˈsʌkəʳ] n (BOT) → serpollo;

(ZOOL) → ventosa;

(col) → bobo, primo

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sucker [ˈsʌkəʳ] n (Bot), (Zool), (Tech) → ventouse f;

(inf) → naïf/ïve, poire f

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sucker [ˈsʌkəʳ] suck n (Zool) → Saugnapf m;

(Tech) → Saugfuß m;

(Bot) → unterirdischer Ausläufer m;

(inf) → Dummkopf m

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sucker [ˈsʌkəʳ] n (ZOOL, TECH) → ventosa;

(BOT) → pollone m;

(col) → gonzo/a, babbeo/a