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sucker

  (sŭk'ər)

1. One that sucks, especially an unweaned domestic animal.
2. Informal.
   1. One who is easily deceived; a dupe.
   2. One that is indiscriminately attracted to something specified: “The nation's capital is a sucker for a symbolic gesture” (Jonathan Alter).
3. Slang.
   1. 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).
   2. A person. Used as a generalized term of reference, often as an intensive: He's a mean sucker.
4. A lollipop.
5. 1. A piston or piston valve, as in a suction pump or syringe.
   2. 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.

1. To strip suckers or shoots from (plants).
2. Informal. To trick; dupe: sucker a tourist into a confidence game.

To send out suckers or shoots.

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noun

A person who is easily deceived or victimized: butt³, dupe, fool, gull, lamb, pushover, victim. Slang fall guy, gudgeon, mark, monkey, patsy, pigeon, sap¹. Chiefly British mug. See wise/foolish.

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Sucker (Catostomus) (credit: Grant Heilman)

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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A shoot rising from a subterranean root or stem of a plant.

A shoot arising from an underground bud on the roots or rootstock of a plant. Suckers can be removed and replanted as new plants. If the sucker grew from the rootstock of a grafted plant, however, the resulting new plant will have the attributes of the original stock, not the desirable graft.

''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
• 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

• "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

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - pattegris, sugeskive, sugerør, rodskud, sugetråd, godtroende fjols, naiv person
v. tr. - danne vildskud, fjerne overflødige skud fra
v. intr. - danne rodskud, danne vildskud

Nederlands (Dutch)
stommeling, iemand die ergens intuint, lolly, iemand die zuigt, zuignap

Français (French)
n. - bonne poire, (Bot, Chirurg) surgeon, ventouse
v. tr. - entuber (fam)
v. intr. - (Bot, Hort) surgeonner

Deutsch (German)
n. - Sauger, Saugnapf, Lutscher, Idiot, Sprößling
v. - von Sprößlingen befreien, Sprosse treiben

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - βεντούζα, μυζητήρας, παραφυάδα, παραβλάστημα, (ΗΠΑ) γλειφιτζούρι, (καθομ.) κορόιδο
v. - πιάνω κορόιδο

Italiano (Italian)
credulone, parassita, idiota, succhione, ciuccio, tettarella

Português (Portuguese)
n. - chupador (m), pirulito (m), tolo (m)
v. - enganar

Русский (Russian)
сосунок, простофиля, молокосос, алкаш, обмануть

Español (Spanish)
n. - chupador, mamantón, caramelo con palito, ventosa, trompa
v. tr. - hacer que alguien parezca tonto
v. intr. - sacar vástagos (como una planta)

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - lättlurad person, sugapparat, karamell
v. - tricksa, driva med

中文（简体） (Chinese (Simplified))
乳儿, 吸管, 从...除去吸根, 长出根出条, 成为吸根

中文（繁體） (Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 乳兒, 吸管
v. tr. - 從...除去吸根
v. intr. - 長出根出條, 成為吸根

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 빠는 사람, 흡수자, 젖 먹는 아기
v. tr. - 흡지를 떼어 버리다, 속이다
v. intr. - 흡지가 나다

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 吸うもの, 乳飲み子, 吸盤, 吸枝, 棒付きキャンディー, だまされやすい人

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) مغفل , الماص , الرضيع (فعل) يخدع‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮יונק, מוצץ, פראייר, שלוחת-שורש, איבר-מציצה, איבר-הצמדה, מטומטם, סוכריה על מקל, דבר שאינו ננקב בשמו‬
v. tr. - ‮שיטה ב-, "סידר" את‬
v. intr. - ‮הצמיח שלוחות-שורש‬

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