sucker

sucker is a 6-letter English word with 24 senses as noun, transitive verb, and intransitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: One who, or that which, sucks; esp., one of the organs by which certain animals, as the octopus and remora, adhere to other bodies. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 14 · 24 senses

Definitions

1. noun. One who, or that which, sucks; esp., one of the organs by which certain animals, as the octopus and remora, adhere to other bodies.
2. noun. A suckling; a sucking animal.
3. noun. The embolus, or bucket, of a pump; also, the valve of a pump basket.
4. noun. A pipe through which anything is drawn.
5. noun. 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; -- used by children as a plaything.
6. noun. A shoot from the roots or lower part of the stem of a plant; -- so called, perhaps, from diverting nourishment from the body of the plant.
7. noun. Any one of numerous species of North American fresh-water cyprinoid fishes of the family Catostomidae; so called because the lips are protrusile. The flesh is coarse, and they are of little value as food. The most common species of the Eastern United States are the northern sucker (Catostomus Commersoni), the white sucker (C. teres), the hog sucker (C. nigricans), and the chub, or sweet sucker (Erimyzon sucetta). Some of the large Western species are called buffalo fish, red horse, black horse, and suckerel.
8. noun. The remora.
9. noun. The lumpfish.
10. noun. The hagfish, or myxine.
11. noun. A California food fish (Menticirrus undulatus) closely allied to the kingfish (a); -- called also bagre.
12. noun. A parasite; a sponger. See def. 6, above.
13. noun. A hard drinker; a soaker.
14. noun. A greenhorn; one easily gulled.
15. noun. A nickname applied to a native of Illinois.
16. transitive verb. To strip off the suckers or shoots from; to deprive of suckers; as, to sucker maize.
17. intransitive verb. To form suckers; as, corn suckers abundantly.
18. noun. mostly North American freshwater fishes with a thick-lipped mouth for feeding by suction; related to carps
19. noun. an organ specialized for sucking nourishment or for adhering to objects by suction
20. noun. hard candy on a stick

    Synonyms: lollipop

21. noun. flesh of any of numerous North American food fishes with toothless jaws
22. noun. a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of

    Synonyms: chump, fool, gull, mark, mug, patsy

23. noun. a drinker who sucks (as at a nipple or through a straw)
24. noun. a shoot arising from a plant's roots

Synonyms

lollipop, chump, fool, gull, mark, mug, patsy

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in sucker:

resuck, uckers

Common word forms

suckers, suckered, suckering

Words from these letters

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