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Sucker

noun

A person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of. Synonyms: chump, fall guy, fool, gull, mark, mug, patsy, soft touch.

A shoot arising from a plant's roots.

A drinker who sucks (as at a nipple or through a straw).

Flesh of any of numerous North American food fishes with toothless jaws.

Hard candy on a stick. Synonyms: all-day sucker, lollipop.

An organ specialized for sucking nourishment or for adhering to objects by suction.

Mostly North American freshwater fishes with a thick-lipped mouth for feeding by suction; related to carps.

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"Sucker" Quotes from Famous Books

... floating and conjectural kind of solution. In the earliest form known to us of this play it should seem that we have traces of Shakespeare's handiwork, in the latest that we find evidence of Marlowe's. But it would be something too extravagant for the veriest wind-sucker among commentators to start a theory that a revision was made of his original work by Marlowe after additions had been made to it by Shakespeare; yet we have seen that the most unmistakable signs of Marlowe's handiwork, the passages which show most plainly the personal and present ...

— A Study of Shakespeare • Algernon Charles Swinburne

... which it is propagated, render it at once the most useful of trees, and the greatest possible incentive to indolence. In less than one year after it is planted the fruit may be gathered and the proprietor has but to cut away the old stems and leave a sucker, which will produce fruit three months after. There are different sorts of bananas, and they are used in different ways; fresh, dried, fried, etc. The dried plantain, a great branch of trade in Michoacn, with its black shrivelled ...

— Life in Mexico • Frances Calderon de la Barca

... I'm going right down to Henry D. Feldman, and I will fix that feller Linkheimer he should work a poor half-starved yokel for five dollars a week and a couple of top-floor tenement rooms which it ain't worth six dollars a month. Wait! I'll show that sucker." ...

— Abe and Mawruss - Being Further Adventures of Potash and Perlmutter • Montague Glass

... how I'm going to do it. I'm going to take one of the automobile's searchlights and shine it off on to some trees and then put the vacuum cleaner just under the light beams. Then when Mr. Moth comes flying down the path of light and gets over the top of the sucker—zing, in he goes. Get my idea? Wait, I'll draw a plan of the thing for you," and, rushing over to the writing table in the corner, Nipper began to draw hastily while the scouts all ...

— The Boy Scout Fire Fighters • Irving Crump

... be one," Malone said, shoving the dollar back to waiting hands. "Take the money; I knew what would happen. It was a sucker bet." ...

— Supermind • Gordon Randall Garrett

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