Definitions for sucker
ˈsʌk ərsuck·er

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1. chump, fool, gull, mark, patsy, fall guy, sucker, soft touch, mugnoun

   a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of

2. suckernoun

   a shoot arising from a plant's roots

3. suckernoun

   a drinker who sucks (as at a nipple or through a straw)

4. suckernoun

   flesh of any of numerous North American food fishes with toothless jaws

5. lollipop, sucker, all-day suckernoun

   hard candy on a stick

6. suckernoun

   an organ specialized for sucking nourishment or for adhering to objects by suction

7. suckernoun

   mostly North American freshwater fishes with a thick-lipped mouth for feeding by suction; related to carps

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1. Suckernoun

   A person strongly attracted to something; -- usually used with for; as, he's a sucker for tall blondes.

2. Suckerverb

   To cheat or deceive (a gullible person); to make a sucker of (someone).

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1. Suckernoun

   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. Suckernoun

   a suckling; a sucking animal

3. Suckernoun

   the embolus, or bucket, of a pump; also, the valve of a pump basket

4. Suckernoun

   a pipe through which anything is drawn

5. Suckernoun

   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. Suckernoun

   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. Suckernoun

   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. Suckernoun

   the remora

9. Suckernoun

   the lumpfish

10. Suckernoun

    the hagfish, or myxine

11. Suckernoun

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

12. Suckernoun

    a parasite; a sponger. See def. 6, above

13. Suckernoun

    a hard drinker; a soaker

14. Suckernoun

    a greenhorn; one easily gulled

15. Suckernoun

    a nickname applied to a native of Illinois

16. Suckerverb

    to strip off the suckers or shoots from; to deprive of suckers; as, to sucker maize

17. Suckerverb

    to form suckers; as, corn suckers abundantly

Matched Categories

1. • Candy
   • Catostomid
   • Drinker
   • Freshwater Fish
   • Organ
   • Shoot

Anagrams for sucker »

1. Uckers

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1. Alex

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   Daniel

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   Karen

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   Oliver

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of sucker in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of sucker in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of sucker in a Sentence

1. Locker Room Fight Bowles:

   There was an altercation in the locker room, it had nothing to do with football. It was something very childish. He (Smith) got cold-cocked, sucker punched, whatever you want to call it, in the jaw. He has a broken jaw, fractured jaw, it requires some surgery.

2. Billy Brown:

   The guy sucker-punched my son and hit him right in the face and just got to whaling on my son for no reason and of course, this is disturbing, my son tells me that the guy then grabbed his shirt and slung him around to the other side of the bus and continued to beat on him and all this time, there are passengers on the bus and there's a bus driver, and no one does anything to intervene.

3. President Biden:

   This sucker is something else.

4. De Forest:

   The burden of the responsibility hit me like a sucker punch. This is a heavy responsibility.

5. Steven Stamkos:

   Obviously, he’s mad about you know the borderline hit there, but there’s different ways to go about it, you can grab a guy and then punch him in the face. But it’s just an unsuspecting guy, it’s a sucker punch.

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