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noun

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The correct spelling is suckers. 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."

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One poor sucker had actually given her his life’s savings.

A sucker for ghost stories.

See if you can get that sucker working again.

Definition

noun

  1. 1.A person or animal that sucks, especially a breast or udder; especially a suckling animal, young mammal before it is weaned.
  2. 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. 3.(by extension) A parasite; a sponger.
  4. 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. 5.A thing that works by sucking something.

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