sucker

1 a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of [syn: chump, fool, gull, mark, patsy, fall guy, soft touch, mug]

2 a shoot arising from a plant's roots

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

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

5 hard candy on a stick [syn: lollipop, all-day sucker]

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

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

English

Pronunciation

• \Suck"er\ (s[u^]k"[~e]r)
• Rhymes with: -ʌkə(r)

Etymology 1

From the verb suck.

Noun

1. A person or thing that sucks
2. An organ or body part that does the sucking
3. Animals such as the octopus and remora, which adhere to other bodies with such organs
4. A piece of candy which is sucked; a lollypop
5. In the context of "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.

Synonyms

• sense piece of candy lollipop

Etymology 2

Possibly from the w Pig in a poke scam, where victims were tricked into believing they were buying a young (that is a suckling) pig.

Noun

1. One who is easily fooled, or gulled.

Synonyms

• sense one who is easily fooled chump, fall-guy, fish, fool, gull, mark, mug, patsy, rube, schlemiel, soft touch

Verb

1. To fool someone; to take advantage of someone.

   The salesman suckered him into signing an expensive maintenance contract.

See also

Sucker may refer to:

• Sucker, also called a lollipop, a type of confectionery consisting mainly of hardened, flavoured sucrose with corn syrup mounted on a stick and intended for sucking or licking
• Suction cup, a plastic device that grips onto smooth surfaces using vacuum
• one of various cup-shaped organs (suckers) found on the tentacles of some animals, which allows them to grip or adhere to objects by the use of suction
• a person who is easily deceived by scams, advertisements, etc.
• Sucker bet, a bet based on something other than expected return
• Sucker hole, a colloquial boating and sailing term
• Sucker list, a list of persons who have previously been successfully solicited for something
• Sucker punch, an act of violence
• SUCKA, a person who was tricked aka Jessica Tillmon
• "There's a sucker born every minute, a phrase often credited to American showman P.T. Barnum

In biology:

• Sucker, also called a basal shoot, a shoot or cane which grows from a bud at the base or roots of a tree or shrub
• Sucker, a common name for any of various fishes in family Catostomidae of order Cypriniformes
  • Blue sucker, Cycleptus elongatus, a freshwater species
  • Desert sucker, Catostomus clarkii, a freshwater species of the lower Colorado River drainage basin
  • June sucker, Chasmistes liorus, endemic to Utah Lake and the Provo River of North America
  • Longnose sucker, Catostomus catostomus, a freshwater species inhabiting cold, clear waters in North America from northern USA to the top of the continent, and the only species of sucker to inhabit Asia, specifically the rivers of eastern Siberia
  • Modoc sucker, Catostomus microps, native to California
  • Mountain sucker, Catostomus platyrhynchus, found throughout western North America
  • Razorback sucker, Xyrauchen texanus, found in rivers in the Colorado River drainage of western North America
  • Santa Ana sucker, Catostomus santaanae, found only in a handful of rivers in southern California
  • Shortnose sucker, Chasmistes brevirostris
  • Sonoran sucker, Catostomus wigginsi, a freshwater species of the Colorado River and Sonora River drainage basins
  • Utah sucker, Catostomus ardens, a sucker of the family Catostomidae found in the upper Snake River and the Lake Bonneville areas of western North America
  • White sucker, Catostomus commersonii, a bottom-feeding freshwater fish inhabiting North America from Labrador in the north to Georgia and New Mexico in the south
• Suckerfish, a common name for Plecostomus, a genus of catfish popular as aquarium fish

In music:

• "Sucker", a song by Peaches from her 2000 album The Teaches of Peaches

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