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Sucker

/ˈsʌk.ə/

A person or animal that sucks, especially a breast or udder; especially a suckling animal, young mammal before it is weaned.

📖 Definitions of "Sucker"

noun
  1. 1

    A person or animal that sucks, especially a breast or udder; especially a suckling animal, young mammal before it is weaned.

  2. 2

    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.

  3. 3

    (by extension) A parasite; a sponger.

  4. 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.

verb
  1. 1

    To strip the suckers or shoots from; to deprive of suckers.

    "to sucker maize"

  2. 2

    To produce suckers, to throw up additional stems or shoots.

  3. 3

    To move or attach itself by means of suckers.

  4. 4

    To fool someone; to take advantage of someone.

    "The salesman suckered him into signing an expensive maintenance contract."

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