sucker

noun

• 1a person or thing that sucks, in particular.
• a flat or concave organ enabling an animal to cling to a surface by suction.
• the piston of a suction pump.
• a pipe through which liquid is drawn by suction.

• 2 informal a gullible or easily deceived person.
• (a sucker for) a person particularly susceptible to or fond of a specified thing:I always was a sucker for a good fairy tale

• 3North American informal a thing or person not specified by name:he’s one strong sucker

• 4 Botany 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.
• a side shoot from an axillary bud, as in tomato plants.

• 5a freshwater fish with thick lips that are used to suck up food from the bottom, native to North America and Asia.

  • Family Catostomidae: many genera and species

• 6North American informal a lollipop.

verb

• 1 [no object] Botany (of a plant) produce suckers:it spread rapidly after being left undisturbed to sucker

• 2 [with object] North American informal fool or trick (someone):they got suckered into accepting responsibility