Definitions for sucker
ˈsʌk ərsuck·er

Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. chump, fool, gull, mark, patsy, fall guy, sucker, soft touch, mug(noun)

   a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of

2. sucker(noun)

   a shoot arising from a plant's roots

3. sucker(noun)

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

4. sucker(noun)

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

5. lollipop, sucker, all-day sucker(noun)

   hard candy on a stick

6. sucker(noun)

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

7. sucker(noun)

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

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1. Sucker(n.)

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

2. Sucker(v. t.)

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

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Sucker(noun)

   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. Sucker(noun)

   a suckling; a sucking animal

3. Sucker(noun)

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

4. Sucker(noun)

   a pipe through which anything is drawn

5. Sucker(noun)

   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. Sucker(noun)

   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. Sucker(noun)

   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. Sucker(noun)

   the remora

9. Sucker(noun)

   the lumpfish

10. Sucker(noun)

    the hagfish, or myxine

11. Sucker(noun)

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

12. Sucker(noun)

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

13. Sucker(noun)

    a hard drinker; a soaker

14. Sucker(noun)

    a greenhorn; one easily gulled

15. Sucker(noun)

    a nickname applied to a native of Illinois

16. Sucker(verb)

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

17. Sucker(verb)

    to form suckers; as, corn suckers abundantly

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1. Uckers

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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. P Barnum:

   There's a sucker born every minute.

2. 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.

3. Joe Biden:

   Trump spent vital weeks praising China's response as successful and transparent while deceiving the American people about the extreme threat we faced and failing to prepare our country, china played Donald Trump for a sucker, and now all of us are paying an atrocious price for his malpractice.

4. W. C. Fields:

   Never give a sucker an even break.

5. Heath Boackle:

   He calls for backup and tells the man to stay in the car, but he didn't, the last thing the officer remembers is getting sucker-punched in a parking lot. The next thing, he's waking up in a hospital bed with staples in his head.

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