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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"
- 1
A person or animal that sucks, especially a breast or udder; especially a suckling animal, young mammal before it is weaned.
- 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
(by extension) A parasite; a sponger.
- 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.
- 1
To strip the suckers or shoots from; to deprive of suckers.
"to sucker maize"
- 2
To produce suckers, to throw up additional stems or shoots.
- 3
To move or attach itself by means of suckers.
- 4
To fool someone; to take advantage of someone.
"The salesman suckered him into signing an expensive maintenance contract."
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