Definitions of Sucker [ˈsʌk ər]

Translate Sucker to

Definition of 'Sucker'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) sucker
a person or thing that sucks.

2.  sucker
Informal. a person easily cheated, deceived, or imposed upon.

3.  sucker
a suckling pig.

4.  sucker
a part or organ that is adapted for sucking, or for clinging by suction.

5.  sucker
any freshwater food fish of the family Catostomidae, mainly of North America, having thick lips.

6.  sucker
a lollipop.

7.  sucker
the piston or valve of a suction pump.

8.  sucker
a pipe or tube through which something is drawn or sucked.

9.  sucker
a shoot rising from an underground stem or root.

10.  sucker
Informal. a person attracted to something as indicated:
He's a sucker for new clothes.

11.  sucker
any person or thing.

12. (v.t.) sucker
Informal. to make a sucker of; fool.

13. (v.i.) sucker
to send out suckers or shoots, as a plant.

Etymology: (1835–45, Amer.)

Definition of 'Sucker'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) chump, fool, gull, mark, patsy, fall guy, sucker, soft touch, mug
a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of

2. (noun) sucker
a shoot arising from a plant's roots

3. (noun) sucker
a drinker who sucks (as at a nipple or through a straw)

4. (noun) sucker
flesh of any of numerous North American food fishes with toothless jaws

5. (noun) lollipop, sucker, all-day sucker
hard candy on a stick

6. (noun) sucker
an organ specialized for sucking nourishment or for adhering to objects by suction

7. (noun) sucker
mostly North American freshwater fishes with a thick-lipped mouth for feeding by suction; related to carps

Definition of 'Sucker'

Webster Dictionary

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

2. (noun) Sucker
a suckling; a sucking animal

3. (noun) Sucker
the embolus, or bucket, of a pump; also, the valve of a pump basket

4. (noun) Sucker
a pipe through which anything is drawn

5. (noun) Sucker
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

6. (noun) Sucker
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

7. (noun) Sucker
any one of numerous species of North American fresh-water cyprinoid fishes of the family Catostomidae; 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

8. (noun) Sucker
the remora

9. (noun) Sucker
the lumpfish

10. (noun) Sucker
the hagfish, or myxine

11. (noun) Sucker
a California food fish (Menticirrus undulatus) closely allied to the kingfish (a); -- called also bagre

12. (noun) Sucker
a parasite; a sponger. See def. 6, above

13. (noun) Sucker
a hard drinker; a soaker

14. (noun) Sucker
a greenhorn; one easily gulled

15. (noun) Sucker
a nickname applied to a native of Illinois

16. (verb) Sucker
to strip off the suckers or shoots from; to deprive of suckers; as, to sucker maize

17. (verb) Sucker
to form suckers; as, corn suckers abundantly

Translation of 'Sucker'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: (slang) a person who is easily fooled or is stupid enough to do something Who is the sucker who bought your car?
Afrikaans: idioot, liggelowige	Arabic: غَبي، أحْمَق	Bulgarian: нещастник
Brazilian: chupador	Czech: důvěřivec, naivka	German: der Sauger, der Saugnapf
Danish: fjols	Greek: καρόιδο	Spanish: primo, tonto, imbécil
Estonian: jobu	Farsi: احمق	Finnish: nuija
French: suceur/-euse	Hebrew: פֶּתִי	Hindi: चूषक
Croatian: naivčina, onaj koji se da	Hungarian: balek	Indonesian: orang bodoh/mudah ditipu
Icelandic: blóðsuga; afæta	Italian: babbeo	Japanese: 吸う人
Korean: 잘 속는 사람	Lithuanian: kvaiša, pusprotis, mulkis	Latvian: stulbenis
Malay: orang yang mudah ditipu	Dutch: zuiger	Norwegian: lettlurt person
Polish: frajer	Persian: احمق	Pashto: احمق
Portuguese: chupador	Romanian: persoană/ insectă care su	Russian: простофиля
Slovak: hlupáčik, ťuťko	Slovenian: bedak	Serbian: naivčina
Swedish: enfaldig (lättlurad) stac	Thai: คนที่ถูกหลอกต้มได้ง่าย	Turkish: enayi, yolunacak kaz
Taiwanese: 吮吸者	Ukrainian: придурок	Urdu: بے وقوف آدمی
Vietnamese: gã khờ	Chinese: 吮吸者
Get even more *translations for Sucker...*