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US
/ˈsəkɝ/
]
[ UK /sˈʌkɐ/ ]
[ UK /sˈʌkɐ/ ]
NOUN
- a drinker who sucks (as at a nipple or through a straw)
- a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of
- mostly North American freshwater fishes with a thick-lipped mouth for feeding by suction; related to carps
- hard candy on a stick
- a shoot arising from a plant's roots
- flesh of any of numerous North American food fishes with toothless jaws
- an organ specialized for sucking nourishment or for adhering to objects by suction
How To Use sucker In A Sentence
- Some spring from immediately below the earth, and may more properly be termed suckers; the others grow on the visible part of the stem or caudex, often close to the oldest leaves; these should be cut off with a sharp knife, in early summer, and if they have a little of the parent bark attached to them all the better. Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.
- The man was never as much of a sucker for a hook as Elton John was, but throughout 'The Soul Cages', Sting defiantly resists hummability as if a mere catchy pop chorus were too frivolous for such weighty content. The Soul Cages
- He made our swimming mascot the 'ucker, which was supposed to be a colloquial way of saying "sucker," a trash fish, but was really so we could do our team cheer, "Be tough, be tough, be tough 'uckers" loudly in mixed company. Instead of Doing My Lesson Plan, I Idly Toondoo
- No, I am not saying that these three popular role models, who were exploited by Home Trade to make suckers out of the common man, must be punished for their silly mistake.
- The end of the tube feet have suckers, which chemically adhere to the substrate.
- The female mosquitoes become the bloodsuckers, and they use their long proboscis to bite other animals and feed on their blood.
- People who would either forsake government aid if possible, or volunteer their time to create non-state charitable institutions, are liable to be considered suckers.
- (Piss and blood fetishes similarly leave me cold, though were you to ask me to urinate in your mouth or carve the word "cocksucker" in your chest with a razor blade, I would probably be happy to oblige.) Archive 2008-03-01
- That's how his bloodsucker business manager siphoned off so much of his money. LADY BE GOOD
- That's why I was suckered into entering one of those Readers' Digest prize draws - you know, the ones that tantalise you for months, getting you to fill in this and that, tear off this bit, post this bit back.