Sucker: English to English |
Sucker (n.) A California food fish (Menticirrus undulatus) closely allied to the kingfish (a); -- called also bagre. |
Sucker (n.) A greenhorn; one easily gulled. |
Sucker (n.) A hard drinker; a soaker. |
Sucker (n.) A nickname applied to a native of Illinois. |
Sucker (n.) A parasite; a sponger. See def. 6, above. |
Sucker (n.) A pipe through which anything is drawn. |
Sucker (n.) A shoot from the roots or lower part of the stem of a plant; -- so called, perhaps, from diverting nourishment from the body of the plant. |
Sucker (n.) 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 |
Sucker (n.) A suckling; a sucking animal. |
Sucker (n.) Any one of numerous species of North American fresh-water cyprinoid fishes of the family Catostomidae; so called because the lips are protrusile. The flesh is coarse, and they are of little value as food. The most common species of the Eastern United Stat |
Sucker (n.) One who, or that which, sucks; esp., one of the organs by which certain animals, as the octopus and remora, adhere to other bodies. |
Sucker (n.) The embolus, or bucket, of a pump; also, the valve of a pump basket. |
Sucker (n.) The hagfish, or myxine. |
Sucker (n.) The lumpfish. |
Sucker (n.) The remora. |
Sucker (v. i.) To form suckers; as, corn suckers abundantly. |
Sucker (v. t.) To strip off the suckers or shoots from; to deprive of suckers; as, to sucker maize. |