Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - sucker
Sucker
sucker
n. & v. --n. 1 a a person or thing that sucks. b a sucking-pig, newborn whale, etc. 2 sl. a a gullible or easily deceived person. b (foll. by for) a person especially susceptible to. 3 a a rubber cup etc. that adheres to a surface by suction. b an organ enabling an organism to cling to a surface by suction. 4 Bot. a shoot springing from the rooted part of a stem, from the root at a distance from the main stem, from an axil, or occasionally from a branch. 5 any of various fish that has a mouth capable of or seeming to be capable of adhering by suction. 6 a the piston of a suction-pump. b a pipe through which liquid is drawn by suction. 7 US colloq. a lollipop. --v. Bot. 1 tr. remove suckers from. 2 intr. produce suckers.
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I. noun Date: 14th century 1. one that sucks especially a breast or udder ; suckling, a device for creating or regulating suction (as a piston or valve in a pump), a pipe or tube through which something is drawn by suction, d. an organ in various animals for adhering or holding, a mouth (as of a leech) adapted for sucking or adhering, a shoot from the roots or lower part of the stem of a plant, any of numerous chiefly North American freshwater bony fishes (family Catostomidae) closely related to the carps but distinguished from them especially by the structure of the mouth which usually has thick soft lips, lollipop 1, 5. a person easily cheated or deceived, a person irresistibly attracted by something specified , c. — used as a generalized term of reference II. verb (~ed; ~ing) Date: 1607 transitive verb to remove ~s from , hoodwink 3, intransitive verb to send out ~s ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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