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1. A person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of
   - chump, fool, gull, mark [US], patsy [N. Amer], fall guy, soft touch, mug
    
2. A shoot arising from a plant's roots
    
3. A drinker who sucks (as at a nipple or through a straw)
    
4. Flesh of any of numerous North American food fishes with toothless jaws
    
5. [N. Amer] Hard candy on a stick
   - lollipop, all-day sucker [N. Amer], lolly [Brit]
    
6. An organ specialized for sucking nourishment or for adhering to objects by suction
    
7. Mostly North American freshwater fishes with a thick-lipped mouth for feeding by suction; related to carps

1. Deceive somebody
   "We suckered the teacher into thinking that class would be cancelled next week";
   - flim-flam, play a joke on, play tricks, trick, fob, fox, pull a fast one on, play a trick on, hose [N. Amer]

Sounds like: styles, ssucker, succour

Derived forms: suckers, suckering, suckered

Type of: candy, catostomid, confect, cozen, deceive, delude, drinker, dupe, freshwater fish, lead on, lolly [Austral, NZ], organ, shoot, sweet [Brit], sweetie [Brit, informal], victim

Part of: Catostomidae, family Catostomidae

Encyclopedia: Sucker