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Sucker

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Noun

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

a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of

2. sucker

a shoot arising from a plant's roots

3. sucker

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

4. sucker

flesh of any of numerous North American food fishes with toothless jaws

5. all-day sucker, lollipop, sucker

hard candy on a stick

6. sucker

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

7. sucker

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

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Sucker

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noun
1. 
a person or thing that sucks
2. slang
a person who is easily deceived or swindled
3. slang
a person who cannot resist the attractions of a particular type of person or thing
he's a sucker for blondes
4. 
a young animal that is not yet weaned, esp a suckling pig
5. zoology
an organ that is specialized for sucking or adhering
6. 
a cup-shaped device, generally made of rubber, that may be attached to articles allowing them to adhere to a surface by suction
7. botany
a. 
a strong shoot that arises in a mature plant from a root, rhizome, or the base of the main stem
b. 
a short branch of a parasitic plant that absorbs nutrients from the host
8. 
a pipe or tube through which a fluid is drawn by suction
9. 
any small mainly North American cyprinoid fish of the family Catostomidae, having toothless jaws and a large sucking mouth
10. 
any of certain fishes that have sucking discs, esp the clingfish or sea snail
11. 
a piston in a suction pump or the valve in such a piston
verb
12. (transitive)
to strip off the suckers from (a plant)
13. (intransitive)
(of a plant) to produce suckers

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Sucker

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noun
1. 
a person or thing that sucks
2.  US
any of a family (Catostomidae, order Cypriniformes) of bony fishes with a mouth adapted for sucking, found in freshwater of E Asia and North America
3. 
a part or device used for sucking
; specif.,
a. 
a pipe or conduit through which something is sucked
b. 
the piston or piston valve of a suction pump
c. 
an organ used by the leech, fluke, remora, etc. for sucking or holding fast to a surface by suction
4.  US
lollipop
5.  US, Slang
a. 
a person easily cheated or taken in; dupe
b. 
a person highly susceptible to the attractions of something specified
c. 
any person or thing
often used humorously or affectionately, or to express mild annoyance
6.  Botany
a subordinate shoot from a bud on the root or stem of a plant
verb transitive
7. 
to remove suckers, or shoots, from
8.  US, Slang
to make a dupe of; trick
verb intransitive
9. 
to bear suckers, or shoots

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Sucker

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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: I'm always a sucker for a good crime drama.
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 freshwater fishes of the family Catostomidae of North America and East Asia, having a thick-lipped mouth used 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, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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