单词 | sucker |
释义 | suck·er (sŭkər) n. 1. One that sucks, especially an unweaned domestic animal. 2. Informal a. One who is easily deceived; a dupe. b. One that is indiscriminately attracted to something specified: I'm always a sucker for a good crime drama. 3. Slang a. An unspecified thing. Used as a generalized term of reference, often as an intensive: "our goal of getting that sucker on the air before old age took the both of us" (Linda Ellerbee). b. A person. Used as a generalized term of reference, often as an intensive: He's a mean sucker. 4. A lollipop. 5. a. A piston or piston valve, as in a suction pump or syringe. b. A tube or pipe, such as a siphon, through which something is sucked. 6. Any of numerous freshwater fishes of the family Catostomidae of North America and East Asia, having a thick-lipped mouth used for feeding by suction. 7. Zoology An organ or other structure adapted for sucking nourishment or for clinging to objects by suction. 8. Botany A secondary shoot produced from the base or roots of a woody plant that gives rise to a new plant. v. suck·ered, suck·er·ing, suck·ers v.tr. 1. To strip suckers or shoots from (plants). 2. Informal To trick; dupe: sucker a tourist into a confidence game. v.intr. Botany To send out suckers or shoots. |
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