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b
: a device for creating or regulating suction (such as a piston or valve in a pump)
c
: a pipe or tube through which something is drawn by suction
d(1)
: an organ in various animals for adhering or holding
(2)
: a mouth (as of a leech) adapted for sucking or adhering
2
: a shoot from the roots or lower part of the stem of a plant
3
: any of numerous chiefly North American freshwater bony fishes (family Catostomidae) closely related to the carps but distinguished from them especially by the structure of the mouth which usually has thick soft lips compare hog sucker, white sucker
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a
: a person easily cheated or deceived
b
: a person irresistibly attracted by something specified
a sucker for ghost stories
c
—used as a generalized term of reference
see if you can get that sucker working again
Synonyms
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Verb
Examples of sucker in a Sentence
Noun
He's just a con artist looking for another sucker.
That kid is a mean little sucker.
Verb
a notorious imposter who at one time suckered a lot of people into believing that she was the Grand Duchess Anastasia
suckered millions of desperate dieters with their grossly inflated claims of successful weight loss
Recent Examples on the Web
Joe Berkowitz, Vulture, 10 Nov. 2024
And get stranded with a big band in Europe, and some sucker is gonna come talk to me about sellin’ out.
—August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2024
Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 1 Nov. 2024
Meanwhile, after Hanani Publishing attempted to sucker Yas into becoming the face of her late father’s scandal, Yas tells the company head that HP is going to pay the restitution to the embezzlement claimants and then leave her the F alone.
—Nick Caruso, TVLine, 29 Sep. 2024
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Noun
Ordinarily, getting offended by a Bill Burr joke is a sucker’s game.
—Joe Berkowitz, Vulture, 10 Nov. 2024
And get stranded with a big band in Europe, and some sucker is gonna come talk to me about sellin’ out.
—August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2024
Verb
Where is Rain at the end of Beauty in Black?
Believing Horace to be responsible for Rain’s death, Kimmie allows Angel (Xavier Smalls), an acquaintance from the club, to sucker her into kidnapping and robbing Horace.
—Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 1 Nov. 2024
Meanwhile, after Hanani Publishing attempted to sucker Yas into becoming the face of her late father’s scandal, Yas tells the company head that HP is going to pay the restitution to the embezzlement claimants and then leave her the F alone.
—Nick Caruso, TVLine, 29 Sep. 2024
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“Sucker.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sucker. Accessed 23 Nov. 2024.
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