sucker

noun20

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. — 1647
2. •
   (slang) a person who is simple to cheat because they accept what others say without doubt

   • One poor sucker had actually given her his life’s savings.
3. •
   (slang) Any thing or object.

   • See if you can get that sucker working again.
4. •
   (slang, disapproving) A person.

   • You got to hit that sucker and hit him over and over. You got to hope he runs out ... — 2009
5. •
   (informal) A 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.
6. •
   (US, informal) A lollipop; a piece of candy which is sucked.
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. •
    (UK, informal) A suction cup.
13. •
    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.
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. •
    An animal such as the octopus and remora, which adhere to other bodies with such organs.
16. •
    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. — 1642
17. •
    (slang, no longer used) A hard drinker.
18. •
    (vulgar, no longer used) The 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. — 1750
19. •
    (US, no longer used) An 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. — 1854
20. •
    (US, no longer used) 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.

verb5

1. •
   (informal) To fool someone; to take advantage of someone.

   • The salesman suckered him into signing an expensive maintenance contract.
2. •
   (informal) To lure someone.
3. •
   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. — 1880
4. •
   To strip the suckers or shoots from; to deprive of suckers.

   • 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. — 1881
5. •
   To move or attach oneself by means of suckers.

   • I am now the octopus, mucus, held together by soft moist membrane, suckering everywhere. — 1961

noun1

1. •
   (slang, old-fashioned) A native or resident of Illinois.