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Sucker   /sˈəkər/   Listen
Sucker

noun
1.
A person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of.  Synonyms: chump, fall guy, fool, gull, mark, mug, patsy, soft touch.
2.
A shoot arising from a plant's roots.
3.
A drinker who sucks (as at a nipple or through a straw).
4.
Flesh of any of numerous North American food fishes with toothless jaws.
5.
Hard candy on a stick.  Synonyms: all-day sucker, lollipop.
6.
An organ specialized for sucking nourishment or for adhering to objects by suction.
7.
Mostly North American freshwater fishes with a thick-lipped mouth for feeding by suction; related to carps.



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"Sucker" Quotes from Famous Books



... before he can reach the opposite shore, and he then becomes a prey to the gar fish; if the stream is but small and the animal is not exhausted, he will run madly to the shore and roll to get rid of his terrible blood-sucker, which, however, will adhere to him, till one or the other of them dies from exhaustion, or from repletion. In crossing the Eastern Texas bayous, I used always to descend from my horse to look if the leeches had stuck; the belly and the ...
— Monsieur Violet • Frederick Marryat
... if thou do'st it halfe so grauely, so maiestically, both in word and matter, hang me vp by the heeles for a Rabbet-sucker, or a ...
— The First Folio [35 Plays] • William Shakespeare
... Otherwise we shall immediately be confronted with a Germany that already reaches as far as Mesopotamia. That is done now; and that, before there can come any permanent peace for Europe, must be undone. Nothing less than the complete release of that sucker and ...
— Crescent and Iron Cross • E. F. Benson
... said he, "I was just getting a bit anxious about you. I thought sure that fairy had you in tow for a sucker. I'm going to stay right with you, and you're not going ...
— The Trail of '98 - A Northland Romance • Robert W. Service
... shake each other like the very devil—not a sober pump—handle shake, but a regular jiggery jiggery, as if they were trying to dislocate each other's arms—and, confound them, even then they don't let go—they cling like sucker fish, and talk and wallop about, and throw themselves back and laugh, and ...
— Tom Cringle's Log • Michael Scott


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