Usually means: Person easily deceived or manipulated.
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We found 38 dictionaries that define the word sucker:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. sucker: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. sucker: Merriam-Webster
  3. sucker: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. sucker: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. sucker: Collins English Dictionary
  6. sucker: Vocabulary.com
  7. Sucker, sucker: Wordnik
  8. sucker: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Sucker, sucker: Wiktionary
  10. sucker: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. sucker: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. sucker: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. sucker: Dictionary.com
  14. sucker: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. sucker: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Sucker (Charli XCX album), Sucker (Jonas Brothers song), Sucker (album), Sucker (botany), Sucker (cephalopod anatomy), Sucker (disambiguation), Sucker (platyhelminth anatomy), Sucker (song), Sucker (zoology), Sucker, The Sucker: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Sucker: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. sucker: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. sucker: Rhymezone
  20. sucker: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. sucker: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. SUCKER: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  23. sucker: FreeDictionary.org
  24. sucker: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. sucker: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sucker (fish), sucker: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. sucker: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sucker: Idioms

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. GreenWeb Gardening Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Flora of New South Wales (No longer online)

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. sucker, sucker, sucker, sucker, sucker: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. sucker: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. Sucker, sucker [piglet]: Urban Dictionary
  4. Sucker: Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: Hardboiled Slang

(Note: See suckered as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A person or animal that sucks, especially a breast or udder; especially a suckling animal, young mammal before it is weaned.
noun:  (horticulture) 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.
noun:  (by extension) A parasite; a sponger.
noun:  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.
noun:  A thing that works by sucking something.
noun:  The embolus, or bucket, of a pump; also, the valve of a pump basket.
noun:  A pipe through which anything is drawn.
noun:  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 a considerable weight to be thus lifted by the string; formerly used by children as a plaything.
noun:  (British, colloquial) A suction cup.
noun:  An animal such as the octopus and remora, which adhere to other bodies with such organs.
noun:  (ichthyology) Any fish in the family Catostomidae of North America and eastern Asia, which have mouths modified into downward-pointing, suckerlike structures for feeding in bottom sediments.
noun:  (US, informal) A lollipop; a piece of candy which is sucked.
noun:  (slang, archaic) A hard drinker.
noun:  (US, obsolete) An inhabitant of Illinois.
noun:  (US, obsolete) A migrant lead miner working in the Driftless Area of northwest Illinois, southwest Wisconsin, and northeast Iowa, working in summer and leaving for winter, so named because of the similarity to the migratory patterns of the North American Catostomidae.
noun:  (US, slang) A person who is easily deceived, tricked or persuaded to do something; a naive or gullible person.
noun:  (informal) A person irresistibly attracted by something specified.
noun:  (obsolete, vulgar, British slang) The penis.
verb:  (horticulture, transitive) To strip the suckers or shoots from; to deprive of suckers.
verb:  (horticulture, intransitive) To produce suckers; to throw up additional stems or shoots.
verb:  (intransitive) To move or attach oneself by means of suckers.
verb:  (transitive, informal) To fool someone; to take advantage of someone.
verb:  (transitive, informal, usually with into) To lure someone.
noun:  (slang, emphatic) Any thing or object.
noun:  (slang, derogatory) A person.
noun:  (US, slang, dated, archaic) A native or denizen of Illinois.

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