Definition of sucker Sucker

/sʌˈkɚ/ - [suker] - suck•er

We found 38 definitions of sucker from 5 different sources.

What does sucker mean?

WordNet

Noun Plural: suckers
sucker - mostly North American freshwater fishes with a thick-lipped mouth for feeding by suction; related to carps
		catostomid a cypriniform fish of the family Catostomidae
		catostomidae, family catostomidae suckers; closely related to the family Cyprinidae
		buffalo fish, buffalofish any of several large suckers of the Mississippi valley
		hog molly, hog sucker, hypentelium nigricans widely distributed in warm clear shallow streams
		redhorse, redhorse sucker North American sucker with reddish fins
sucker - an organ specialized for sucking nourishment or for adhering to objects by suction
		organ wind instrument whose sound is produced by means of pipes arranged in sets supplied with air from a bellows and controlled from a large complex musical keyboard
sucker - flesh of any of numerous North American food fishes with toothless jaws
		freshwater fish flesh of fish from fresh water used as food
sucker - a drinker who sucks (as at a nipple or through a straw)
		drinker a person who drinks alcoholic beverages (especially to excess)
sucker - a shoot arising from a plant's roots
sucker - a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of
		chump, fool, gull, mark, patsy, fall guy, soft touch, mug
		dupe, victim an unfortunate person who suffers from some adverse circumstance
sucker - hard candy on a stick
		lollipop, all-day sucker

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Wiktionary

sucker (Noun)
A person or thing that sucks.
sucker (Noun)
An organ or body part that does the sucking.
sucker (Noun)
Animals such as the octopus and remora, which adhere to other bodies with such organs.
sucker (Noun)
A piece of candy which is sucked; a lollypop.
sucker (Noun)
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.
sucker (Noun)
A suction cup .
sucker (Noun)
One who is easily fooled, or gulled.
sucker (Noun)
Slang A thing or object. Any thing or object being called attention to with emphasis, as in "this sucker".
sucker (Verb)
To strip the suckers or shoots from; to deprive of suckers.
sucker (Verb)
To fool someone; to take advantage of someone.

Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘

sucker (n.)
One who, or that which, sucks; esp., one of the organs by which certain animals, as the octopus and remora, adhere to other bodies.
sucker (n.)
A suckling; a sucking animal.
sucker (n.)
The embolus, or bucket, of a pump; also, the valve of a pump basket.
sucker (n.)
A pipe through which anything is drawn.
sucker (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 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.
sucker (n.)
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.
sucker (n.)
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.
sucker (n.)
The remora.
sucker (n.)
The lumpfish.
sucker (n.)
The hagfish, or myxine.
sucker (n.)
A California food fish (Menticirrus undulatus) closely allied to the kingfish (a); -- called also bagre.
sucker (n.)
A parasite; a sponger. See def. 6, above.
sucker (n.)
A hard drinker; a soaker.
sucker (n.)
A greenhorn; one easily gulled.
sucker (n.)
A nickname applied to a native of Illinois.
sucker (v. t.)
To strip off the suckers or shoots from; to deprive of suckers; as, to sucker maize.
sucker (v. i.)
To form suckers; as, corn suckers abundantly.

OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω

sucker
A person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of.
sucker
A family of fish of the order Cypriniformes found in North America, east central China and eastern Siberia.
sucker
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.