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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

... pro tem, on proving that he was a sucker from the great bough of the Fontaines of Melton; and why? Because, this effected, he had only to go along that bough by an established pedigree to the great trunk of the Funteyns of Salle, and the first Funteyn of Salle was said to be (and this he hoped to prove true) great-grandson of Robert ...

— Love Me Little, Love Me Long • Charles Reade

... and the wonderful facility with 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 skin and ...

— Life in Mexico • Frances Calderon de la Barca

... scarcely be called a game, but the use of the sucker is so familiar to most boys that a description of it is surely not out of place in this chapter. A piece of sole leather is used, three or four inches square. It is cut into a circle and the edges carefully ...

— Outdoor Sports and Games • Claude H. Miller

... had played the tricks he dare ter play, The daisies would be bloomin' over his remains to-day; But, somehow, folks respected him and stood him to the last, Considerin' his superior connections in the past; So, when he bilked at poker, not a sucker drew a gun On the man who'd worked with Dana on the Noo ...

— John Smith, U.S.A. • Eugene Field

... inside my head had made me a sucker for the real one on my arm. Maragon had made his point. I might have reached the thirty-third degree, but I wasn't quite as big a shot as I thought I was. I could feel that rattler on my arm all the way ...

— Vigorish • Gordon Randall Garrett

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