NOUN | person | sucker, chump, fool, gull, mark, patsy, fall guy, soft touch, mug | a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of |
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plant | sucker | a shoot arising from a plant's roots | |
person | sucker | a drinker who sucks (as at a nipple or through a straw) | |
food | sucker | flesh of any of numerous North American food fishes with toothless jaws | |
food | sucker, lollipop, all-day sucker | hard candy on a stick | |
animal | sucker | an organ specialized for sucking nourishment or for adhering to objects by suction | |
animal | sucker | mostly North American freshwater fishes with a thick-lipped mouth for feeding by suction |
Sounds | sah'ker | |
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Rhymes | acre / Acre ... Zocor: 182 rhymes with ker... |
Meaning | A person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of. | |
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Synonyms | chump, fool, gull, mark, patsy, fall guy, soft touch, mug | |
Broader | victim, dupe | A person who is tricked or swindled |
Spanish | berzotas, bobo, cabeza de turco, cipote, estúpido, gaviota, idiota, imbécil, mameluco, panoli, primo, tonto | |
Catalan | babau, beneit, encantat, enze, gamarús, gavina, idiota, pallús, tanoca, tòtil | |
Verbs | suck | take in, also metaphorically |
Meaning | A shoot arising from a plant's roots. | |
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Broader | shoot | A new branch |
Meaning | A drinker who sucks (as at a nipple or through a straw). | |
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Broader | drinker | A person who drinks liquids / liquids |
Verbs | suck | draw into the mouth by creating a practical vacuum in the mouth |
Meaning | flesh of any of numerous North American food fishes with toothless jaws. | |
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Part of | sucker | Mostly North American freshwater fishes with a thick-lipped mouth for feeding by suction |
Broader | freshwater fish | flesh of fish from fresh water used as food |
Spanish | sardina |
Meaning | hard candy on a stick. | |
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Synonyms | lollipop, all-day sucker | |
Broader | candy, confect | A rich sweet made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts |
Spanish | chupa-chups, chupachups, chupachús, chupeta, chupete, chupetín, colombina, loli, paleta de caramelo, piruleta, pirulí | |
Catalan | chupa-chups, lollipop, piruleta, pirulí |
Meaning | An organ specialized for sucking nourishment or for adhering to objects by suction. | |
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Narrower | cupule | A sucker on the feet of certain flies |
Broader | organ | A fully differentiated structural and functional unit in an animal that is specialized for some particular function |
Spanish | ventosa | |
Catalan | ventosa | |
Verbs | suck | give suck to |
Meaning | Mostly North American freshwater fishes with a thick-lipped mouth for feeding by suction; related to carps. | |
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Member of | Catostomidae, family Catostomidae | suckers |
Parts | sucker | flesh of any of numerous North American food fishes with toothless jaws |
Narrower | buffalo fish, buffalofish | Any of several large suckers of the Mississippi valley |
hog sucker, hog molly, Hypentelium nigricans | widely distributed in warm clear shallow streams | |
redhorse, redhorse sucker | North American sucker with reddish fins | |
Broader | catostomid | A cypriniform fish of the family Catostomidae |
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