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Definition sucker

Etymology 1

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”).

Noun

sucker (plural suckers)

1. A person or animal that sucks, especially a breast or udder; especially a suckling animal, young mammal before it is weaned. [from late 14th century]
2. (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. [from 1570s]
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. (Britain, colloquial) 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 [from 1750s]
12. (US, informal) A piece of candy which is sucked [from 1820s]; a lollipop [from 1900s]
13. (slang, archaic) A hard drinker; a soaker.
14. (US, obsolete) An inhabitant of Illinois.
15. (US, slang) A person who is easily deceived, tricked or persuaded to do something; a naive person [from 1830s]
16. A person irresistibly attracted by something specified.
17. (obsolete, vulgar, British slang) The penis.

Verb

sucker (third-person singular simple present suckers, present participle suckering, simple past and past participle suckered)

1. (horticulture, transitive) To strip the suckers or shoots from; to deprive of suckers.
2. (horticulture, intransitive) To produce suckers, to throw up additional stems or shoots.
3. (transitive) To fool someone; to take advantage of someone.

Etymology 2

Possibly from German Sache (“thing”).

Noun

sucker (plural suckers)

1. (slang, emphatic) Any thing or object.
2. (slang, derogatory) A person.

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