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sucker

/ˈsʌk.ɚ/ sustantivo C1

En español: mamón, otario, pringado, primo

  1. A person or animal that sucks, especially a breast or udder; especially a suckling animal, young mammal before it is weaned.
  2. 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.
  3. A parasite; a sponger.
  4. 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.
  5. A thing that works by sucking something.
  6. The embolus, or bucket, of a pump; also, the valve of a pump basket.
  7. A pipe through which anything is drawn.
  8. 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.

Plural suckers

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I'll see this sucker and fill him up with a bogus confession.
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, p. 44 · B2
Saw through my game, I suppose, and played me for a sucker from the first.
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, p. 91 · B2
“Seems to me they are playing me for a sucker in this hotel,” he cried.
The Hound of the Baskervilles, p. 50 · C1

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