sucker
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suck·er
(sŭk'ər) 
n.
v., -ered, -er·ing, -ers. v.tr.
To send out suckers or shoots.
n.
- One that sucks, especially an unweaned domestic animal.
- Informal.
- One who is easily deceived; a dupe.
- One that is indiscriminately attracted to something specified: "The nation's capital is a sucker for a symbolic gesture" (Jonathan Alter).
- Slang.
- 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).
- A person. Used as a generalized term of reference, often as an intensive: He's a mean sucker.
- A lollipop.
- A piston or piston valve, as in a suction pump or syringe.
- A tube or pipe, such as a siphon, through which something is sucked.
- 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.
- Zoology. An organ or other structure adapted for sucking nourishment or for clinging to objects by suction.
- Botany. A secondary shoot produced from the base or roots of a woody plant that gives rise to a new plant.
v., -ered, -er·ing, -ers. v.tr.
- To strip suckers or shoots from (plants).
- Informal. To trick; dupe: sucker a tourist into a confidence game.
To send out suckers or shoots.
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Sucker (Catostomus) (credit: Grant Heilman Photography)
Sucker (Catostomus) (credit: Grant Heilman Photography)
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sucker
A shoot rising from a subterranean root or stem of a plant.
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sucker
sucker, common name for members of the family Catostomidae, freshwater fish related to the minnow and catfish families and like them possessing an intricate set of bones forming a highly sensitive hearing apparatus. Suckers range in size from 6 in. (15 cm) to 3 ft (90 cm). They have fleshy, sucking mouths and are sluggish bottom feeders, eating small aquatic animals and plants. The white, or common, sucker, found throughout North America, is an important food fish with firm, sweet (though bony) flesh. Buffalo fish are large suckers whose coarse, bony, nutritious flesh is also much used as food in the central states. The bigmouth buffalo fish reaches 4 ft (120 cm) in length and 65 lb (29 kg) in weight, the smallmouth buffalo fish sometimes attains 20 lb (9 kg), and the black, or mongrel, buffalo fish is intermediate in size. Other suckers are known as red horses, carp suckers, and freshwater mullets. Suckers are classified in the phylum Chordata, subphylum Vertebrata, class Osteichthyes, order Mormyriformes, family Catostomidae.
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1. and sucka n. a dupe; an easy mark. See if you can sell that sucker the Brooklyn Bridge.
2. tv. to trick or victimize someone. That crook suckered me. I should have known better.
3. n. an annoying person. (Also a rude term of address.) I am really sick of that sucker hanging around here.
4. n. a gadget; a thing. Now, you put this little sucker right into this slot.
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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.
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noun
noun, orig and mainly US
1: A gullible or easily deceived person. (1838 —) .
A. Conan Doyle I'll see this sucker and fill him up with a bogus confession (1927).
2: A person especially susceptible to something; followed by for. (1957 —) .
Essays in Criticism I confess to being a sucker myself, if not for Malory, for Welsh legend (1957).
3: In generalized, neutral use: any object or thing (as specified by context). (1978 —) .
Sports Illustrated One day David said, 'Never fear, I'll shut that sucker off.' And he grabbed it and gave it a huge twist (1982).verb trans.
4:orig and mainly US To cheat, to trick. (1939 —) .
J. & W. Hawkins We are going to sucker the killer out in the open (1958).
noun, orig and mainly US
1: A gullible or easily deceived person. (1838 —) .
A. Conan Doyle I'll see this sucker and fill him up with a bogus confession (1927).
2: A person especially susceptible to something; followed by for. (1957 —) .
Essays in Criticism I confess to being a sucker myself, if not for Malory, for Welsh legend (1957).
3: In generalized, neutral use: any object or thing (as specified by context). (1978 —) .
Sports Illustrated One day David said, 'Never fear, I'll shut that sucker off.' And he grabbed it and gave it a huge twist (1982).
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J. & W. Hawkins We are going to sucker the killer out in the open (1958).
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categories related to 'sucker'
- Fish
- Plants and Plant Parts - sucker: strong offshoot from roots or lower stem of plant
- Intelligence or Aptitude
- Behavior or Personality
- Fraud, Treachery, and Deception - sucker: dupe
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Sucker may refer to:
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General use
- Lollipop or sucker, a type of confection
- Sucker (slang), a slang term for someone considered gullible enough to fall for a very obvious prank or con and go about unaware of it
Biology
- Sucker (botany), a term for a basal shoot that grows from the base of a tree or shrub
- Sucker (cephalopod anatomy), a cup-shaped part of tentacles or cephalopod arms of some animals
- Suckerfish (disambiguation)
- Sucker (parasitic worms anatomy), an attachment organ of parasitic worms
Music
- Suckers (band), a Brooklyn-based band
- "Sucker", a 1973 song by The J.B.'s from the album Doing It to Death
- "Sucker", a 2000 song by Peaches from The Teaches of Peaches
- "Suckers!", a 2007 song by Super Furry Animals from Hey Venus!'
- "Sucker", a 1972 song by Mott the Hoople from the album All the Young Dudes
Entertainment
- Suckers (cartoon), a cartoon by BRB Internacional
- Suckers (film), a 1999 film revolving around illegal and unethical events at a car dealership
- Sucker (film), a 2011 horror film produced by Kimberley Kates
- Suckers: How alternative medicine makes fools of us all, a 2008 book about alternative medicine written by Rose Shapiro
- Suckers, a toy line by LJN
- "Suckers", a 2003 episode in season 4 of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
See also
- Sücka
- Sucker Lake
- Sucker mouth
- Sucker River
- Sucker State, unofficial nickname for Illinois.
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Sucker
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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