Sucker | |
1. n. (US, slang) A native or denizen of Illinois. | |
2. n. A person or animal that sucks, especially a breast or udder; especially a suckling animal, young mammal before it is weaned. | |
3. n. (horticulture) An undesired stem growing out of the roots or lower trunk of a shrub or tree, especially from the rootstock of a grafted plant or tree. | |
4. n. A parasite; a sponger. | |
5. n. An organ or body part that does the sucking; especially a round structure on the bodies of some insects, frogs, and octopuses that allows them to stick to surfaces. | |
6. n. A thing that works by sucking something. | |
7. n. The embolus, or bucket, of a pump; also, the valve of a pump basket. | |
8. n. A pipe through which anything is drawn. | |
9. 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 | |
10. n. (UK, colloquial) A suction cup. | |
11. n. An animal such as the octopus and remora, which adhere to other bodies with such organs. | |
12. n. Any fish in the family Catostomidae of North America and eastern Asia, which have mouths modified into downward-pointing, suckerlike structures for feeding in bottom sediments | |
13. n. (American, informal) A piece of candy which is sucked ; a lollipop (from 1900s) | |
14. n. (slang) A hard drinker; a soaker. | |
15. n. (American, obsolete) An inhabitant of Illinois. | |
16. n. (American, slang) A person who is easily deceived, tricked or persuaded to do something; a naive person | |
One poor sucker had actually given her his life’s savings. - | |
17. n. A person irresistibly attracted by something specified. | |
A sucker for ghost stories. - | |
18. n. (obsolete, vulgar, British slang) The penis. | |
19. v. (horticulture, transitive) To strip the suckers or shoots from; to deprive of suckers. | |
to sucker maize | |
20. v. (horticulture, intransitive) To produce suckers, to throw up additional stems or shoots. | |
21. v. To fool someone; to take advantage of someone. | |
The salesman suckered him into signing an expensive maintenance contract. | |
22. n. (slang) A thing or object. Any thing or object being called attention to with emphasis, as in "this sucker". | |
23. n. (informal) Generalized term of reference to a person. | |
See if you can get that sucker working again. | |