FluentPlex

sucker

/ˈsʌk.ɚ/ noun C1
  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

+ Save to review

From the library

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

Other matches

Learn sucker in real texts

With a free account, hover any word in the library for its meaning, hear it read aloud, save words for review timed to your memory, and see how much of each book you already know.

Create free account
Words, meanings, pronunciations and translations from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); how common each word is from wordfreq. Made into this dictionary by FluentPlex.