suckers

Noun

sucker (plural suckers)

1. A person or animal that sucks, especially a breast or udder; especially a suckling animal, young mammal before it is weaned.
   • Sir Gregory. I promise you, not a house-rabbit, sir. Sir Perfidious. No sucker on ’em all.1647, Uncertain, perhaps Beaumont and Fletcher or Thomas Middleton and William Rowley?, Wit at Several Weapons, act 3, scene 1, page 44
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. (broadly) A parasite; a sponger.
   • They who constantly converse with men far above their estates shall reap shame and loss thereby; if thou payest nothing, they will count thee a sucker, no branch.1642, Thomas Fuller, The Holy State and the Prophane State

   Synonyms:

   bloodsucker, bludger, bummer, freeloader, free rider, gadfly, leech, mooch, moocher, parasite

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.
   • The last Mr. Hobbs’s principal explanations, is of the experiment wherein above 100 pound weight, being hung at the depress’d sucker, the sucker was, notwithstanding, impell’d up again, by the air, to the top of the cylinder.1725, Robert Boyle, The Philosophical Works, page 687

See all 26 meanings of sucker