sucker

Definitions of sucker in various dictionaries:

noun - a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of

noun - a shoot arising from a plant's roots

noun - a drinker who sucks (as at a nipple or through a straw)

noun - flesh of any of numerous North American food fishes with toothless jaws

noun - hard candy on a stick

noun - an organ specialized for sucking nourishment or for adhering to objects by suction

noun - mostly North American freshwater fishes with a thick-lipped mouth for feeding by suction

One that sucks, especially an unweaned domestic animal.

Informal.

One who is easily deceived; a dupe.

One that is indiscriminately attracted to something specified: “The nation’s capital is a sucker for a symbolic gesture” (Jonathan Alter).

Slang.

An unspecified thing.

A person.

A lollipop.

A piston or piston valve, as in a suction pump or syringe.

A tube or pipe, such as a siphon, through which something is sucked.

Any of numerous chiefly North American freshwater fishes of the family Catostomidae, having a toothless jaw and a thick-lipped mouth adapted for feeding by suction.

An organ or other structure adapted for sucking nourishment or for clinging to objects by suction.

A secondary shoot produced from the base or roots of a woody plant that gives rise to a new plant.

To strip suckers or shoots from (plants).

To trick; dupe: sucker a tourist into a confidence game.

verb - to strip of lower shoots or branches