1. sucker - Noun
2. sucker - Verb
The lumpfish.
One who, or that which, sucks; esp., one of the organs by which certain animals, as the octopus and remora, adhere to other bodies.
A suckling; a sucking animal.
The embolus, or bucket, of a pump; also, the valve of a pump basket.
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; -- used by children as a plaything.
A shoot from the roots or lower part of the stem of a plant; -- so called, perhaps, from diverting nourishment from the body of the plant.
Any one of numerous species of North American fresh-water cyprinoid fishes of the family Catostomidae; so called because the lips are protrusile. The flesh is coarse, and they are of little value as food. The most common species of the Eastern United States are the northern sucker (Catostomus Commersoni), the white sucker (C. teres), the hog sucker (C. nigricans), and the chub, or sweet sucker (Erimyzon sucetta). Some of the large Western species are called buffalo fish, red horse, black horse, and suckerel.
The remora.
The hagfish, or myxine.
A California food fish (Menticirrus undulatus) closely allied to the kingfish (a); -- called also bagre.
A parasite; a sponger. See def. 6, above.
A hard drinker; a soaker.
A greenhorn; one easily gulled.
A nickname applied to a native of Illinois.
To strip off the suckers or shoots from; to deprive of suckers; as, to sucker maize.
To form suckers; as, corn suckers abundantly.
Source: Webster's dictionaryNever give a sucker an even break. W. C. Fields
And for a sucker play a man gets sucker pay; for the paymaster is on the job and never losses the pay envelope that is coming to you. Edwin Lefèvre
The literate man is a sucker for propaganda... You cannot propagandize a native. You can sell him rum and trinkets, but you cannot sell him ideas. Marshall McLuhan
I'm just a sucker even talking to you guys. I should be ready to rip your heads off your necks. But it's just not the right thing to do. Mike Tyson
And there was that poor sucker Flaubert rolling around on his floor for three days looking for the right word. Dorothy Parker
Never give a sucker an even break. Latin Proverb