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What does sucker mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word sucker? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. A person or thing that sucks.
  2. An organ or body part that does the sucking.
  3. An animal such as the octopus and remora, which adhere to other bodies with such organs.
  4. 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.
  5. A piece of candy which is sucked; a lollipop.
  6. (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.
  7. (Britain, colloquial) A suction cup.
  8. A suckling animal.
  9. The embolus, or bucket, of a pump; also, the valve of a pump basket.
  10. A pipe through which anything is drawn.
  11. 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.
  12. A parasite; a sponger.
  13. (slang, archaic) A hard drinker; a soaker.
Verb
  1. (transitive) To strip the suckers or shoots from; to deprive of suckers.
Noun
  1. One who is easily fooled, or gulled.
Verb
  1. To fool someone; to take advantage of someone.
Noun
  1. (slang) A thing or object. Any thing or object being called attention to with emphasis, as in "this sucker".
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