sucker

noun · verbA2

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noun

Plural noun:

suckers

1.
A person or animal that sucks, especially a breast or udder; especially a suckling animal, young mammal before it is weaned.
2.
(horticulture) 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.
(broadly)(by extension) A parasite; a sponger.
Đồng nghĩa: bloodsucker, bludger, bummer, freeloader, free rider, gadfly, leech, mooch, moocher, parasite, scrounge, scrounger, scunge, smell-feast, sponge, sponger, sucker, trencher mate
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.
6.
The embolus, or bucket, of a pump; also, the valve of a pump basket.
7.
A pipe through which anything is drawn.
8.
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.
(British, colloquial)A suction cup.
10.
An animal such as the octopus and remora, which adhere to other bodies with such organs.
11.
(ichthyology) 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.
(US, informal)A lollipop; a piece of candy which is sucked.

Động từ

verb

V_es/s

suckers

V_ing/Gerund

suckering

V_ed/pp

suckered

1.
(transitive)(horticulture, transitive) To strip the suckers or shoots from; to deprive of suckers.
to sucker maize
2.
(intransitive)(horticulture, intransitive) To produce suckers; to throw up additional stems or shoots.
3.
(intransitive)To move or attach oneself by means of suckers.
4.
(informal, transitive)To fool someone; to take advantage of someone.
The salesman suckered him into signing an expensive maintenance contract.
5.
(informal, transitive, usually)(transitive, informal, usually with into) To lure someone.

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Đồng nghĩa

bloodsuckerbludgerbummer freeloaderfree ridergadfly leech mooch moocher parasite scrounge scrounger scungesmell-feastsponge spongertrencher matesoakersuck-pintalco

Cùng gốc / liên quan

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Nguồn gốc từ

From Middle English souker, sokere, sukkere, soukere, equivalent to suck + -er. Compare Suuger, sûker, zuiger, Sauger.