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# sucker

«sucker» in Mova's school dictionary: **a part of an animal that can stick to things by suction…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a sucker, suckers); verb phrase (sucker someone into — informal)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A sucker is a part of an animal that can stick to things by suction, like the round pads on an octopus's arms. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sucker/#m1)

2) A sucker is also a rubber cup that sticks to smooth surfaces when you press it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sucker/#m2)

3) (informal) A sucker is a person who is easily tricked: «Ha, sucker!» [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sucker/#m3)

4) (informal) To be a sucker for something is to like it so much you cannot resist it: I'm a sucker for chocolate. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sucker/#m4)

5) A sucker is also a new shoot growing from the root of a plant, and (US) a lollipop. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sucker/#m5)

6) A sapsucker is a woodpecker that drills holes in tree bark to drink the sap. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sucker/#m6)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons, octopuses and squid use suckers to grip and taste; leeches use suckers to feed; some plants spread by suckers. In design and technology, suction cups (suckers) hold things to windows. In everyday and playground talk, calling someone a «sucker» is teasing or mocking. Phrases: «octopus suckers», «a sucker for», «suckered into», «sucker punch» (a sneaky hit).

### examples

- An octopus has two rows of suckers on each arm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sucker/#x1)
- The sucker holds the toy to the window. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sucker/#x2)
- (informal) I'm a sucker for funny cat videos. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sucker/#x3)
- (informal) He was suckered into paying for everyone's chips. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sucker/#x4)
- (informal) "Made you look, sucker!" [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sucker/#x5)
- Cut off the suckers so the tomato plant grows strong. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sucker/#x6)
- (US) The dentist gave me a sugar-free sucker. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sucker/#x7)

### note

Plural «suckers». Calling someone «sucker» is rude teasing. In science, «suction cup» is the more formal name for the rubber kind.

### In the corpora

- [Sperm whales dive deep to hunt giant squid, and many sperm whales carry round scars left by the squid's suckers.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/39-octopuses-squid-and-cuttlefish/15/)
- [An octopus has eight arms with suckers all along them, and scientists call them arms, not tentacles.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/40-counting-legs-arms-wings-and-tails/7/)
- [A squid or cuttlefish has eight arms plus two longer tentacles with suckers only on their wide tips, ten limbs in all.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/40-counting-legs-arms-wings-and-tails/8/)
- [Remoras stick to sharks and rays with a sucker on their heads, and that sucker is really a changed fin.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/174-reef-giants-and-wanderers-whale-sharks-mantas-dugongs-and-sea-turtles/15/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «sucker» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sucker/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.