sucker

sostantivo

1. 1

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

   Sir Gregory. I promise you, not a house-rabbit, sir. Sir Perfidious. No sucker on ’em all.

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

   A parasite; a sponger.

   They who constantly converse with men far above their estates shall reap shame and loss thereby; if thou payest nothing, they will count thee a sucker, no branch.

   Of the scaly tribe, I may mention those suckers belonging to the body loaferish, that never rise to the surface of respectability, but are always groveling in the mud of corruption, whose sole study appears to be to see how much they can get without the least physical exertion; and who would rather ride to hell in a hand-cart than walk to heaven supported by the staff of industry.

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.

5. 5

   A thing that works by sucking something.

6. 6

   The embolus, or bucket, of a pump; also, the valve of a pump basket.

   The last Mr. Hobbs’s principal explanations, is of the experiment wherein above 100 pound weight, being hung at the depress’d sucker, the sucker was, notwithstanding, impell’d up again, by the air, to the top of the cylinder.

7. 7

   A pipe through which anything is drawn.

8. 8

   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; formerly used by children as a plaything.

9. 9

   A suction cup.

10. 10

    An animal such as the octopus and remora, which adhere to other bodies with such organs.

11. 11

    Any fish in the family Catostomidae of North America and eastern Asia, which have mouths modified into downward-pointing, suckerlike structures for feeding in bottom sediments.

12. 12

    informaleA lollipop; a piece of candy which is sucked.

13. 13

    arcaicoA hard drinker.

14. 14

    obsoletoAn inhabitant of Illinois.

    A band of music was sent thirty miles to wake up the sleepy suckers, and draw them, by the magic of their music, to the Douglas gathering at Quincy, Illinois.

15. 15

    obsoletoA migrant lead miner working in the Driftless Area of northwest Illinois, southwest Wisconsin, and northeast Iowa, working in summer and leaving for winter, so named because of the similarity to the migratory patterns of the North American Catostomidae.

16. 16

    gergoA person who is easily deceived, tricked or persuaded to do something; a naive or gullible person.

    One poor sucker had actually given her his life’s savings.

    This ſucker thinks nane wiſe. / But him that can to immenſe riches riſe:

    They had sorcerized me, and I were a done-over sucker; so I jist gin up. No sooner had we ’rove at the boat, instead o’ feastin’ me on gully-whompin oysters, they nabbed me quick as a snappin’ turtle

    “George, them fellows took me for a sucker. Do I look like a sucker?” ¶ “No, Bill; you look like a nice, smart counter-hopper,” I replied.

17. 17

    informaleA person irresistibly attracted by something specified.

    I'm a sucker for ghost stories.

    He must be a sucker for punishment to try to climb that mountain barefoot.

    So don't be alarmed if he takes you by the arm / I won't let him win, but I'm a sucker for his charm / Trouble is a friend, yeah, trouble is a friend of mine, oh oh!

    2015, Clutch, Sucker for the Witch Oh, I begged and I pleaded like a fiend for a fix / I must unburden my guilty conscience / I admit it, I'm a sucker for the witch

18. 18

    obsoletoThe penis.

    Thus to and again to our paſtime we went, / And my Cards I play'd fairly to Jenny's content; / I work'd at her Pump till my Sucker grew dry, / Then I left pumping, a good Reaſon why.

verbo

1. 1

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

   to sucker maize

   It is as important to sucker tobacco carefully and as often as the situation demands it as it is to search for and remove the green-horn worm.

2. 2

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

   I have let my vines sucker more than I ought this year, perhaps, but I want to start them out in better shape by encouraging a large growth of wood.

   We prefer to plant in rows instead of hills because the plants sucker so badly here, and because, with our scanty rainfall, it is better to have the plants isolated than bunched.

   ‘That’s if they don’t all sucker, darn them!’

3. 3

   To move or attach oneself by means of suckers.

   I am now the octopus, mucus, held together by soft moist membrane, suckering everywhere.

   He paused at the octopus tank. Clyde, our resident giant Pacific octopus, was suckering his way across the front panel.

   I hold the octopus around the middle, suckering and so heavy, trying to crawl down my belly and legs to get away. I run to shore, trying to keep the tentacles off me, but it's too big and strong.

4. 4

   informaleTo fool someone; to take advantage of someone.

   The salesman suckered him into signing an expensive maintenance contract.

   I asked him to tell me specifically just what his gripe might be, but he told me never mind what the details are; that he had put his faith in you on my recommendation but that you had suckered him and he refused to tell me anything about how you suckered him.

5. 5

   informaleTo lure someone.

   As the escort carriers chug away south, their single 5-inch rear guns are now cleared to open fire as the range closes. Disappointed gunners on other weapons are informed, "Just wait a little longer, boys; we're suckering them into 40-mm range."

sostantivo

1. 1

   gergoAny thing or object.

   She's in love with a boy from the rodeo who pulls the rope on the chute when they let those suckers go.

   1984, Runaway (film): scene in a helicopter, around 5 min 20 sec RAMSAY: Dave, can you land this sucker?

   The back plating looks vulnerable, light that sucker up!

   See if you can get that sucker working again.

2. 2

   gergoA person.

   You got to hit that sucker and hit him over and over. You got to hope he runs out ...

   Maybe you hit that sucker and we'll get some DNA ...

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