Sucker

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A person or animal that sucks, especially a breast or udder; especially a suckling animal, young mammal before it is weaned.

   “Sir Gregory. I promise you, not a house-rabbit, sir. Sir Perfidious. No sucker on ’em all.”

2. isim 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. isim A parasite; a sponger.

   “They who constantly converse with men far above their estates shall reap shame and loss thereby; if thou payest nothing, they will count thee a sucker, no branch.”

4. isim 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. isim A thing that works by sucking something.
6. isim The embolus, or bucket, of a pump; also, the valve of a pump basket.

   “The last Mr. Hobbs’s principal explanations, is of the experiment wherein above 100 pound weight, being hung at the depress’d sucker, the sucker was, notwithstanding, impell’d up again, by the air, to the top of the cylinder.”

7. isim A pipe through which anything is drawn.
8. isim 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.
9. isim A suction cup.
10. isim An animal such as the octopus and remora, which adhere to other bodies with such organs.
11. isim Any fish in the family Catostomidae of North America and eastern Asia, which have mouths modified into downward-pointing, suckerlike structures for feeding in bottom sediments.
12. isim A lollipop; a piece of candy which is sucked.
13. isim A hard drinker.
14. isim An inhabitant of Illinois.

    “A band of music was sent thirty miles to wake up the sleepy suckers, and draw them, by the magic of their music, to the Douglas gathering at Quincy, Illinois.”

15. isim A migrant lead miner working in the Driftless Area of northwest Illinois, southwest Wisconsin, and northeast Iowa, working in summer and leaving for winter, so named because of the similarity to the migratory patterns of the North American Catostomidae.
16. isim A person who is easily deceived, tricked or persuaded to do something; a naive or gullible person.

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

17. isim A person irresistibly attracted by something specified.

    “I'm a sucker for ghost stories.”

18. isim The penis.

    “Thus to and again to our paſtime we went, / And my Cards I play'd fairly to Jenny's content; / I work'd at her Pump till my Sucker grew dry, / Then I left pumping, a good Reaſon why.”

19. fiil To strip the suckers or shoots from; to deprive of suckers.

    “to sucker maize”

20. fiil To produce suckers; to throw up additional stems or shoots.

    “I have let my vines sucker more than I ought this year, perhaps, but I want to start them out in better shape by encouraging a large growth of wood.”

21. fiil To move or attach oneself by means of suckers.

    “I am now the octopus, mucus, held together by soft moist membrane, suckering everywhere.”

22. fiil To fool someone; to take advantage of someone.

    “The salesman suckered him into signing an expensive maintenance contract.”

23. fiil To lure someone.

    “As the escort carriers chug away south, their single 5-inch rear guns are now cleared to open fire as the range closes. Disappointed gunners on other weapons are informed, "Just wait a little longer, boys; we're suckering them into 40-mm range."”

24. isim Any thing or object.

    “See if you can get that sucker working again.”

25. isim A person.

    “You got to hit that sucker and hit him over and over. You got to hope he runs out ...”

26. isim A native or resident of Illinois.