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sucker
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hag \Hag\ (h[a^]g), n. [OE. hagge, hegge, witch, hag, AS. h[ae]gtesse; akin to OHG. hagazussa, G. hexe, D. heks, Dan. hex, Sw. h["a]xa. The first part of the word is prob. the same as E. haw, hedge, and the orig. meaning was perh., wood woman, wild woman. [root]12.]
A witch, sorceress, or enchantress; also, a wizard. [Obs.] ``[Silenus] that old hag.''
--Golding.An ugly old woman.
--Dryden.A fury; a she-monster.
--Crashaw.(Zo["o]l.) An eel-like marine marsipobranch ( Myxine glutinosa), allied to the lamprey. It has a suctorial mouth, with labial appendages, and a single pair of gill openings. It is the type of the order Hyperotreta. Called also hagfish, borer, slime eel, sucker, and sleepmarken.
(Zo["o]l.) The hagdon or shearwater.
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An appearance of light and fire on a horse's mane or a man's hair.
--Blount.Hag moth (Zo["o]l.), a moth ( Phobetron pithecium), the larva of which has curious side appendages, and feeds on fruit trees.
Hag's tooth (Naut.), an ugly irregularity in the pattern of matting or pointing.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"young mammal before it is weaned," late 14c., agent noun from suck. Slang meaning "person who is easily deceived" is first attested 1836, American English, on notion of naivete; but another theory traces the slang meaning to the fish called a sucker (1753), on the notion of being easy to catch in their annual migrations (the fish so called from the shape of its mouth). As a type of candy from 1823; especially "lollipop" by 1907. Meaning "shoot from the base of a tree or plant" is from 1570s. Also the old name of inhabitants of Illinois.
"to deceive, to make a dupe of," 1939, from sucker (n.) in the related sense. Related: Suckered; suckering.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 A person or thing that sucks. 2 An organ or body part that does the sucking. 3 An animal such as the octopus and remora, which adhere to other bodies with such organs. 4 A piece of candy which is sucked; a lollipop. 5 (context horticulture English) 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. 6 (context British colloquial English) A suction cup. 7 A suckling animal. 8 The embolus, or bucket, of a pump; also, the valve of a pump basket. 9 A pipe through which anything is drawn. 10 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. 11 A parasite; a sponger. 12 (context slang archaic English) A hard drinker; a soaker. 13 A person that sucks; a general term of disparagement. vb. (context transitive English) To strip the suckers or shoots from; to deprive of suckers. Etymology 2
n. One who is easily fooled, or gulled. vb. To fool someone; to take advantage of someone. Etymology 3
n. (slang) A thing or object. Any thing or object being called attention to with emphasis, as in "this sucker".
WordNet
n. a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of [syn: chump, fool, gull, mark, patsy, fall guy, soft touch, mug]
a shoot arising from a plant's roots
a drinker who sucks (as at a nipple or through a straw)
flesh of any of numerous North American food fishes with toothless jaws
hard candy on a stick [syn: lollipop, all-day sucker]
an organ specialized for sucking nourishment or for adhering to objects by suction
mostly North American freshwater fishes with a thick-lipped mouth for feeding by suction; related to carps
Wikipedia
Sucker may refer to:
Sucker in zoology refers to specialised attachment organ of an animal. It acts as an adhesion device in parasitic worms, cephalopods, and certain fishes and bats. It is a muscular structure for suction on the host or substrate. In parasitic worms such as annelids, flatworms and roundworms, suckers are the organs of attachment to the host tissues. In tapeworms and flukes, they are parasitic adaptation for attachment on the internal tissues of the host, such as intestines and blood vessels. In roundworms they serve as attachment between individual particularly during mating. In annelids, a sucker can be both functional mouth and locomotory organ. The structure and number of suckers are often used as basic taxonomic diagnosis between different species, since they are unique in each species. In tapeworms there are two distinct classes of suckers, namely "bothridia" for true suckers, and "bothria" for false suckers. In digenetic flukes there are oral sucker at the mouth and ventral sucker (or acetabulum) posterior to the mouth. Roundworms have their sucker just in front of the anus, hence, is often called preanal sucker.
Among chordates some fishes and mammals have suckers, which are used as holdfast to substrata. Among fishes some members of the order Perciformes have modified fins to form sucker. Sucker-footed bats have unusual suckers on their limbs and are specially useful during roosting.
Sucker is the second studio album by English singer and songwriter Charli XCX, released on 15 December 2014 by Asylum and Atlantic Records. The album was met with positive reviews from critics, praising its throwback style, and ended up being included on many year-end lists for best albums of the preceding 12 months. Sucker has spawned the singles " Boom Clap", " Break the Rules", " Doing It" (featuring Rita Ora) and " Famous".
Charli promoted the album through a series of public appearances and televised live performances, as well as appearing on the Jingle Ball Tour 2014. The album was supported by Charli's Girl Power North America Tour, which lasted from September to October 2014. She was also the opening act for the European leg of Katy Perry's The Prismatic World Tour in 2015.
Usage examples of "sucker".
The fanged suckers had ceased their movement toward him and were swirling about in aimless confusion.
Although Zeb never got beyond eighth grade, he had an innate understanding of the best way to bilk a sucker.
The cestodes, one of which came from the peke, one from the little bear, were identical: white tapes some twenty-four inches long, with suckers and hooks at the head end.
First der is dey fact you gant run out, dat dere is alreaty on deh Sugar vagon deh piggest load of chuicy suckers dat efer game in from deh suppurbs.
The same dumpster had yielded four Sweet and Innocent honey candy suckers, smashed, but still in their wrappers.
In both instances an assortment of spectacularly hideous alien apparitions visible and audible only to his chemically altered perception fumed powerlessly at him, threatening with tentacles and teeth, with razor-edged suckers and wet, unclean fumy lips.
Cheat is also an ESS, however, because a population consisting largely of cheats will not be invaded by either grudger or sucker.
In a population of grudgers and suckers it is impossible to tell which is which.
Grudger does indeed turn out to be an evolutionarily stable strategy against sucker and cheat, in the sense that, in a population consisting largely of grudgers, neither cheat nor sucker will invade.
During the precipitous decline of the suckers, the grudgers have been slowly decreasing in numbers, taking a battering from the prospering cheats, but just managing to hold their own.
Paradoxically, the presence of the suckers actually endangered the grudgers early on in the story because they were responsible for the temporary prosperity of the cheats.
Cody saw the Spanish Inquisition pronouncing judgment on generations of poor Andean Indies as well as their own kind, serpentine tendrils and teeth and ichorous suckers fluttering from the foreheads of parasitized judges and prosecutors.
He was eight years old, and guilty is guilty, and I hope the little sucker, when he hits Cummins, they get his ass right off the bat, because he deserves to be tortured and punished for the rest of his life for murdering three eight-year-old children!
The body vanished in a cloud of acrid smoke, arms and legs flailing, landing four paces away, suckered fingers scrabbling in the leaf mold.
Miss Marple sighed, looked again with annoyance at the antirrhinums, saw several weeds which she yearned to root up, one or two exuberant suckers she would like to attack with her secateurs, and finally, sighing, and manfully resisting temptation, she made a detour round by the lane and returned to her house.