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sucker noun [ ˈsʌkə ]

• a gullible or easily deceived person.
• "if suckers will actually pay to do the work, more fool them"
• a thing or person not specified by name.
• "he's one strong sucker"
• a flat or concave organ enabling an animal to cling to a surface by suction.
• "they attach themselves to fish by means of a sucker"
• a shoot springing from the base of a tree or other plant, especially one arising from the root below ground level at some distance from the main stem or trunk.
• the piston of a suction pump.
• a freshwater fish with thick lips that are used to suck up food from the bottom, native to North America and Asia.
• a lollipop.

sucker verb

• fool or trick (someone).
• "they got suckered into accepting responsibility"
• (of a plant) produce suckers.
• "it spread rapidly after being left undisturbed to sucker"


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