Sucker

Quick meaning: Sucker is a noun meaning A person or animal that sucks, especially a breast or udder; especially a suckling animal, young mammal before it is weaned.

Meaning

A person or animal that sucks, especially a breast or udder; especially a suckling animal, young mammal before it is weaned.

More Meanings

1. (by extension) A parasite; a sponger.
2. A thing that works by sucking something.
3. The embolus, or bucket, of a pump; also, the valve of a pump basket.
4. A pipe through which anything is drawn.
5. (horticulture) 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.
6. An organ or body part that does the sucking; especially a round structure on the bodies of some insects, frogs, and octopuses that allows them to stick to surfaces.
7. 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; formerly used by children as a plaything.

Example Sentences

One poor sucker had actually given her his life’s savings.

This ſucker thinks nane wiſe. / But him that can to immenſe riches riſe:

Sir Gregory. I promise you, not a house-rabbit, sir. Sir Perfidious. No sucker on ’em all.

A band of music was sent thirty miles to wake up the sleepy suckers, and draw them, by the magic of their music, to the Douglas gathering at Quincy, Illinois.

Word Forms

• suckers
• suckering
• suckered

Synonyms for sucker

Depending on context, synonyms include thing, object, bloodsucker, bludger, bummer, freeloader.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include lollipop, shlemiel, fish, gull, mark, chump.

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