1. deceive, dupe, fool; (about a plant) send forth shoots. one who sucks; unweaned animal; lollipop; gullible person, dupe (Slang); pacifier; unspecified person or thing; organ which sucks or clings to by means of suction (Zoology); secondary shoot (Botany). "a person who is gullible; easy to persuade" """Who will buy that painting?"" ""Oh, a sucker will come along.""". sucker\suck"er\ (sŭk"&etilde;r), n.
2. one who, or that which, sucks; esp., one of the organs by which certain animals, as the octopus and remora, adhere to other bodies.
3. a suckling; a sucking animal. & fl.
4. the embolus, or bucket, of a pump; also, the valve of a pump basket.
5. a pipe through which anything is drawn.
6. 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.
7. (bot.) 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.
8. (zo?l.) (a) any one of numerous species of north american fresh-water cyprinoid fishes of the family catostomid?; 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. (b) the remora. (c) the lumpfish. (d) the hagfish, or myxine. (e) a california food fish (menticirrus undulatus) closely allied to the kingfish (a); -- called also bagre.
9. a parasite; a sponger. see:
def. 6, above. they who constantly converse with men far above their estates shall reap shame and loss thereby; if thou payest nothing, they will count thee a sucker, no branch.
10. a hard drinker; a soaker. [slang].
11. a greenhorn; one easily gulled. [slang, u.s.].
12. a nickname applied to a native of illinois. [u. s.].
13. One who, or that which, sucks; esp., one of the organs by which certain animals, as the octopus and remora, adhere to other bodies.
14. A suckling; a sucking animal.
15. The embolus, or bucket, of a pump; also, the valve of a pump basket.
16. A pipe through which anything is drawn.
17. 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.
18. 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.
19. Any one of numerous species of North American fresh-water cyprinoid fishes of the family Catostomidæ; so called because the lips are protrusile.
20. The flesh is coarse, and they are of little value as food.
21. The most common species of the Eastern United States are the northern sucker , the white sucker , the hog sucker , and the chub, or sweet sucker.
22. Some of the large Western species are called buffalo fish, red horse, black horse, and suckerel.
23. The remora.
24. The lumpfish.
25. The hagfish, or myxine.
26. A California food fish closely allied to the kingfish ; called also bagre.
27. A parasite; a sponger.
28. See def. 6, above.
29. A hard drinker; a soaker.
30. A greenhorn; one easily gulled.
31. A nickname applied to a native of Illinois.
32. To strip off the suckers or shoots from; to deprive of suckers; as, to sucker maize.
33. To form suckers; as, corn suckers abundantly. mostly North American freshwater fishes with a thick-lipped mouth for feeding by suction; related to carps an organ specialized for sucking nourishment or for adhering to objects by suction flesh of any of numerous North American food fishes with toothless jaws a drinker who sucks a shoot arising from a plant's roots.
34. 1. disapproval If you call someone a sucker, you mean that it is very easy to cheat them. But that is what the suckers want so you give it them.
35. If you describe someone as a sucker for something, you mean that they find it very difficult to resist it. I'm such a sucker for romance.
36. The suckers on some animals and insects are the parts on the outside of their body which they use in order to stick to a surface.
37. A sucker is a small device used for attaching things to surfaces. It consists of a cup-shaped piece of rubber that sticks to a surface when it is pressed flat. sucker pads. sucker into to persuade someone to do something they do not want to do, especially by tricking them or lying to them. Any of 80-100 species (family Catostomidae) of freshwater food fishes found mostly in North America. Suckers can be distinguished from minnows by the sucking mouth, with protrusible lips, on the underside of the head. Generally sluggish, they suck up detritus, invertebrates, and plants from the bottom of lakes and slow streams. The species vary greatly in size. The lake chubsucker (Erimyzon sucetta) grows to 10 in. (25 cm) long; the bigmouth buffalo fish (Ictiobus cyprinellus) grows to 35 in. (90 cm) and over 70 lbs (32 kg).
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