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Definition of Sucker

Sucker

One who, or that which, sucks; esp., one of the organs by which certain animals, as the octopus and remora, adhere to other bodies.

A suckling; a sucking animal.

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; -- used by children as a plaything.

A shoot from the roots or lower part of the stem of a plant; -- so called, perhaps, from diverting nourishment from the body of the plant.

Any one of numerous species of North American fresh-water cyprinoid fishes of the family Catostomidae; so called because the lips are protrusile. The flesh is coarse, and they are of little value as food. The most common species of the Eastern United States are the northern sucker (Catostomus Commersoni), the white sucker (C. teres), the hog sucker (C. nigricans), and the chub, or sweet sucker (Erimyzon sucetta). Some of the large Western species are called buffalo fish, red horse, black horse, and suckerel.

The remora.

The lumpfish.

The hagfish, or myxine.

A California food fish (Menticirrus undulatus) closely allied to the kingfish (a); -- called also bagre.

A parasite; a sponger. See def. 6, above.

A hard drinker; a soaker.

A greenhorn; one easily gulled.

A nickname applied to a native of Illinois.

To strip off the suckers or shoots from; to deprive of suckers; as, to sucker maize.

To form suckers; as, corn suckers abundantly.

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Sucker Quotations

It's morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money.
W. C. Fields

Never give a sucker an even break.
W. C. Fields

You know what, I'm very attracted to someone who makes me laugh and is that charming. Really, I could be charmed by anyone. I'm just a sucker for somebody that is charming.
Beyonce Knowles

What do you take me for? A fourteen karat sucker?
Stanley Kubrick

If you're playing a poker game and you look around the table and and can't tell who the sucker is, it's you.
Paul Newman

I've always been a fan of melody and emotional melancholy, whether it was Rites of Spring or Tears for Fears or Neil Young. If I hear a song that has a sweet melody, I'm a sucker for it, whether it's Linkin Park or Little Richard.
Dave Grohl

I have always been a sucker for the big, upbeat chorus.
Tommy Shaw

I love romance. I'm a sucker for it. I love it so much. It's pathetic.
Drew Barrymore

I'm a sucker for packaging!
Chloe Sevigny

My opinion is that he's a swindler and you're a sucker.
John McCarthy

I'm a sucker for a funny script. And then, as soon as I don't wanna be, one comes along and grabs me.
Meg Ryan

Shakespeare in Love... such smart writing of an alternative view of history, and such beautiful acting. Like most Americans, I'm a sucker for the accent.
Anita Diament

I have always been a sucker for ballads, but you have to be careful these days, you can't overload people.
Joe Cocker

I am pretty much a sucker any really bad reality television.
Sara Gilbert

If you look around the table and you can't tell who the sucker is, it's you.
Paul Scofield

I don't recall your name but you sure were a sucker for a high inside curve.
Bill Dickey