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Raresucker
The correct spelling is sucker.
How to pronounce sucker
/ˈsʌk.ə/
nounIPA: /ˈsʌk.ə/
Say it like: Suk-er
The correct spelling is sucker. A person or animal that sucks, especially a breast or udder; especially a suckling animal, young mammal before it is weaned. For example: "One poor sucker had actually given her his life’s savings."
Usage Examples
“One poor sucker had actually given her his life’s savings.”
“A sucker for ghost stories.”
“to sucker maize”
Meanings
noun
- 1.A person or animal that sucks, especially a breast or udder; especially a suckling animal, young mammal before it is weaned.
- 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.(by extension) A parasite; a sponger.
- 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.
verb
- 1.To strip the suckers or shoots from; to deprive of suckers.
- 2.To produce suckers, to throw up additional stems or shoots.
- 3.To move or attach itself by means of suckers.
- 4.To fool someone; to take advantage of someone.
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