Sucker

English Meaning

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

1. One that sucks, especially an unweaned domestic animal.
2. Informal One who is easily deceived; a dupe.
3. Informal One that is indiscriminately attracted to something specified: "The nation's capital is a sucker for a symbolic gesture” ( Jonathan Alter).
4. 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).
5. Slang A person. Used as a generalized term of reference, often as an intensive: He's a mean sucker.
6. A lollipop.
7. A piston or piston valve, as in a suction pump or syringe.
8. A tube or pipe, such as a siphon, through which something is sucked.
9. 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.
10. Zoology An organ or other structure adapted for sucking nourishment or for clinging to objects by suction.
11. Botany A secondary shoot produced from the base or roots of a woody plant that gives rise to a new plant.
12. To strip suckers or shoots from (plants).
13. Informal To trick; dupe: sucker a tourist into a confidence game.
14. Botany To send out suckers or shoots.