Meaning of Sucker | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A native or resident of Illinois.
   US, dated, slang
2. Any thing or object.
   emphatic, slang
3. A person or animal that sucks, especially a breast or udder; especially a suckling animal, young mammal before it is weaned.
4. 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.
5. A person.
   derogatory, slang
6. A parasite; a sponger.
   broadly
7. 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.
8. A thing that works by sucking something.
9. The embolus, or bucket, of a pump; also, the valve of a pump basket.
10. A pipe through which anything is drawn.
11. 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.
12. A suction cup.
    British, colloquial
13. An animal such as the octopus and remora, which adhere to other bodies with such organs.
14. 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.
15. A lollipop; a piece of candy which is sucked.
    US, informal
16. A hard drinker.
    archaic, slang
17. An inhabitant of Illinois.
    US, obsolete
18. A 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.
    US, obsolete
19. A person who is easily deceived, tricked or persuaded to do something; a naive or gullible person.
    US, slang
20. A person irresistibly attracted by something specified.
    informal
21. The penis.
    British, obsolete, slang, vulgar

Equivalents

Examples

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

“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.”

“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.”

“There is a swarm of 'suckers,' 'hoosiers,' 'buckeyes,' 'corn-crackers,' and 'wolverines,' eternally on the qui vive, in those parts—a migratory race of bipeds—who float about from spot to spot, 'squatting,' for the nonce, wherever their fancy or interest may incline them; and a rougher set of men will rarely be met with, saving the genuine 'voyageurs,' or 'trappers'—so notorious for their hardihood.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Then he burst into a stream of horrible profanity. "What's the game?" he cried, glaring round him. "Do you think I am easy and that you can play me for a sucker? Is it a frame-up, or what?”

““After twenty years you’re still a sucker for her lies? […]””

“The rates here were unbelievable - $30 a day each. As you walk through the front door, they stamp "sucker" on your forehead.”

“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”

“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.”

“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.”

“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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