sucker

Meanings

Plural: suckers

Noun

• a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of
• a shoot arising from a plant's roots
• a drinker who sucks (as at a nipple or through a straw)
• flesh of any of numerous North American food fishes with toothless jaws
• hard candy on a stick
• an organ specialized for sucking nourishment or for adhering to objects by suction
• mostly North American freshwater fishes with a thick-lipped mouth for feeding by suction; related to carps
• A person or animal that sucks, especially a breast or udder; especially a suckling animal, young mammal before it is weaned.
• 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.
• A parasite; a sponger.
• 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.
• A thing that works by sucking something.
• The embolus, or bucket, of a pump; also, the valve of a pump basket.
• A pipe through which anything is drawn.
• 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.
• A suction cup.
• An animal such as the octopus and remora, which adhere to other bodies with such organs.
• Any fish in the family Catostomidae of North America and eastern Asia, which have mouths modified into downward-pointing, suckerlike structures for feeding in bottom sediments.
• A lollipop; a piece of candy which is sucked.
• A hard drinker.
• An inhabitant of Illinois.
• A migrant lead miner working in the Driftless Area of northwest Illinois, southwest Wisconsin, and northeast Iowa, working in summer and leaving for winter, so named because of the similarity to the migratory patterns of the North American Catostomidae.
• A person who is easily deceived, tricked or persuaded to do something; a naive or gullible person.
• A person irresistibly attracted by something specified.
• The penis.
• Any thing or object.
• A person.

Verb

• To strip the suckers or shoots from; to deprive of suckers.
• To produce suckers; to throw up additional stems or shoots.
• To move or attach oneself by means of suckers.
• To fool someone; to take advantage of someone.
• To lure someone.

Synonyms

alco, alcoholic, alkie, all-day sucker, anaconda, bacchanal, bacchant, bald-headed hermit, baloney pony, banana, barfly, bibber, birdie, bloodsucker, bobby, boonga, booze artist, boozehound, boozer, borachio, bouser, bummer, cack, carouser, choad, choda, chode, chopper, chump, chumpion, cigar, cock, colloquial, corey, cousin, crank, cucumber, cull, cully, cupster, custard launcher, D, dick, dicklet, diddle, diddly, ding-a-ling, ding-dong, dingaling, dinger, dingle, dingus, dingy, dink, dinkle, dipso, dipsomaniac, dipstick, dirk, disco stick, dog bone, dong, donger, Donkey Kong, doodle, dork, dotterel, down, drinker, drunk, drunkard, dupe, easy mark, fall guy, fire hose, fish, fool, free rider, freeloader, fuckpole, fuddlecap, fuddler, gadfly, gherkin, grog artist, gudgeon, gull, guzzler, hairy canary, hammer, hog, hoo-hoo, hooter, hot dog, hot rod, Illinoisian, inebriate, it, jade stalk, jamoke, jigger, jimmy, jock, John Thomas, johnson, joint, Jonathan, joystick, juggins, juicehead, kielbasa, knob, lad, langer, leech, lick-wimble, lingam, live one, lollipop, love muscle, love sausage, love stick, love truncheon, love wand, lush, lusher, machine, magnum, male member, maltworm, man-meat, manhood, mark, Master John Goodfellow, meat, meat puppet, meat rod, meat scepter, meat stick, meatstick, member, membrum virile, mooch, moocher, mug, muggins, nature's scythe, nob, object, old chap, old fellow, one-eyed trouser snake, organ, p-word, package, parasite, patsy, pecker, pee-pee, pee-wee, peen, pego, penis, Percy, peter, phallus, pickle, piece, piece of pork, pigeon, pike, pillicock, pingas, pink cigar, pink oboe, pintle, pipe, pisser, pisshead, pisspot, piston, pizzle, plonker, plonko, pork sword, prick, pud, purple-headed yogurt slinger, putz, python, ramrod, rape tool, reel-pot, rinse-pitcher, rod, root, rube, rumpot, rutter, salami, sap, saphead, sausage, schlemiel, schlong, schmuck, scrounge, scrounger, scunge, sex tool, shaft, sheep, shicker, shlong, shmekl (qualifier, short arm, simp, Simple Simon, skin flute, slubberdegullion, smell-feast, snake, snausage, soak, soaker, soft touch, sot, souse, spitstick, sponge, sponger, squeeze-grape, steamer, stem, stiff, stooge, stretcher, suck-pint, sucker, swill-belly, swill-bowl, swill-flagon, swill-pot, swill-tub, swillking, swipe, tadger, tagger, tail, tallywhacker, tarse, thing, thingy, third leg, tic tac, tippler, todger, tool, toper, tosspot, trencher mate, trouser monkey, trouser snake, truncheon, tube steak, tun, unit, virile member, wang, weapon, wee-wee, weenie, weeny, whang, wick, widdler, widgie, wiener, willie, willy, winebibber, winesop, wingwang, winkle, winky, wino, yard, Yiddish), ying-yang