Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun sucker

7 senses of sucker

Sense 1
chump, fool, gull, mark, patsy, fall guy, sucker, soft touch, mug -- (a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of)
       => victim, dupe -- (a person who is tricked or swindled)

Sense 2
sucker -- (a shoot arising from a plant's roots)
       => shoot -- (a new branch)

Sense 3
sucker -- (a drinker who sucks (as at a nipple or through a straw))
       => drinker -- (a person who drinks liquids)

Sense 4
sucker -- (flesh of any of numerous North American food fishes with toothless jaws)
       => freshwater fish -- (flesh of fish from fresh water used as food)

Sense 5
lollipop, sucker, all-day sucker -- (hard candy on a stick)
       => candy, confect -- (a rich sweet made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts)

Sense 6
sucker -- (an organ specialized for sucking nourishment or for adhering to objects by suction)
       => organ -- (a fully differentiated structural and functional unit in an animal that is specialized for some particular function)

Sense 7
sucker -- (mostly North American freshwater fishes with a thick-lipped mouth for feeding by suction; related to carps)
       => catostomid -- (a cypriniform fish of the family Catostomidae)