sucker

[suckĀ·er]

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

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To strip off the suckers or shoots from; to deprive of suckers; as, to sucker maize.

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

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

Noun
hard candy on a stick

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

Noun
a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of

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

Noun
a shoot arising from a plant''s roots


n.
One who, or that which, sucks; esp., one of the organs by which certain animals, as the octopus and remora, adhere to other bodies.

n.
A suckling; a sucking animal.

n.
The embolus, or bucket, of a pump; also, the valve of a pump basket.

n.
A pipe through which anything is drawn.

n.
A small piece of leather, usually round, having a string attached to the center, which, when saturated with water and pressed upon a stone or other body having a smooth surface, adheres, by reason of the atmospheric pressure, with such force as to enable a considerable weight to be thus lifted by the string; -- used by children as a plaything.

n.
A shoot from the roots or lower part of the stem of a plant; -- so called, perhaps, from diverting nourishment from the body of the plant.

n.
Any one of numerous species of North American fresh-water cyprinoid fishes of the family Catostomidae; so called because the lips are protrusile. The flesh is coarse, and they are of little value as food. The most common species of the Eastern United States are the northern sucker (Catostomus Commersoni), the white sucker (C. teres), the hog sucker (C. nigricans), and the chub, or sweet sucker (Erimyzon sucetta). Some of the large Western species are called buffalo fish, red horse, black horse, and suckerel.

n.
The remora.

n.
The lumpfish.

n.
The hagfish, or myxine.

n.
A California food fish (Menticirrus undulatus) closely allied to the kingfish (a); -- called also bagre.

n.
A parasite; a sponger. See def. 6, above.

n.
A hard drinker; a soaker.

n.
A greenhorn; one easily gulled.

n.
A nickname applied to a native of Illinois.

v. t.
To strip off the suckers or shoots from; to deprive of suckers; as, to sucker maize.

v. i.
To form suckers; as, corn suckers abundantly.


Sucker

Suck"er , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Suckered ; p. pr. & vb. n. Suckering.] To strip off the suckers or shoots from; to deprive of suckers; as, to sucker maize.

Sucker

Suck"er, v. i. To form suckers; as, corn suckers abundantly.

To strip off the suckers or shoots from; to deprive of suckers; as, to sucker maize.

To form suckers; as, corn suckers abundantly.

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Usage Examples

Over the eons I've been a fan of, and sucker for, each latest automated system to 'simplify' and 'bring order to' my life. Very early on this led me to the beautiful-and-doomed Lotus Agenda for my DOS computers, and Actioneer for the early Palm.

It's funny because I'm a sucker for glitz and glitter when it comes to clothes and nail polish, but with my makeup, I'm more comfortable with a natural look. It feels more like me.

I think that different pleasures work for different readers - a friend of mine won't read anything that's not a cardiovascular sort of page-turner. I tend to care less about plot, but I'm a sucker for humor and strangeness.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

I love romance. I'm a sucker for it. I love it so much. It's pathetic.

It's morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money.

I don't know why, but I've always been a sucker for roller coasters in movies.

I'm a sucker for sad disco pop.

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