English Explanatory Dictionary

sucker

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A person or animal that sucks, especially a breast or udder; especially a suckling animal, young mammal before it is weaned.
  2. 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.
  3. A parasite; a sponger.
  4. 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.
  5. A thing that works by sucking something.
  6. The embolus, or bucket, of a pump; also, the valve of a pump basket.
  7. A pipe through which anything is drawn.
  8. 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.
  9. A suction cup.
  10. An animal such as the octopus and remora, which adhere to other bodies with such organs.
  11. 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.
  12. A lollipop; a piece of candy which is sucked.
verb
  1. To strip the suckers or shoots from; to deprive of suckers.
  2. To produce suckers; to throw up additional stems or shoots.
  3. To move or attach oneself by means of suckers.
  4. To fool someone; to take advantage of someone.
  5. To lure someone.
noun
  1. Any thing or object.
  2. A person.
noun
  1. A native or resident of Illinois.

Pronunciation

/ˈsʌk.ə/ /ˈsʌk.ɚ/ en-au-sucker.ogg

Word forms

sucker suckers suckering suckered

Etymology

From Middle English souker, sokere, sukkere, soukere, equivalent to suck (verb) + -er. Compare Saterland Frisian Suuger, West Frisian sûker (“sucker”), Dutch zuiger (“sucker”), German Sauger (“dummy; vacuum”).

Synonyms

bloodsucker bludger bummer freeloader free rider gadfly leech mooch moocher parasite scrounge scrounger scunge smell-feast sponge sponger sucker trencher mate soaker suck-pint alco alcoholic alkie bacchanal bacchant barfly bibber booze artist boozehound boozer borachio bouser carouser cupster dipso dipsomaniac drinker drunk drunkard fuddlecap fuddler grog artist guzzler inebriate juicehead lick-wimble lush lusher maltworm pisshead pisspot plonko reel-pot rinse-pitcher rumpot shicker slubberdegullion soak sot souse

Derived words

all-day sucker ass sucker a sucker is born every minute ballsucker bloodsucker blood-sucker bogsucker bottle-sucker bum-sucker bumsucker carpsucker choadsucker chubsucker clitsucker clocksucker cocksucker cock-sucker cock sucker cogsucker cow sucker cuntsucker cybersucker desucker dicksucker goatsucker gully sucker hogsucker honeysucker kikesucker Klamath smallscale sucker Lost River sucker lumpsucker mudsucker nutsucker pseudosucker quarter-sucker rocksucker sandsucker sapsucker scumsucker selfsucker self-sucker sharksucker shortnose sucker solder sucker Suckerberg sucker bet suckerfish sucker for punishment suckerhood suckerish suckerless suckerlet suckerlike suckermouth sucker punch sucker-punch sucker tracks sucker trap Suckerville
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