Sŭck'er1, n.
n. 1. One who, or that which, sucks or draws with the mouth.
Sense 2. A suckling. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.
Sense 3. A parasite; a sponger. [Obs.] 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; a wen, no member of their company. Fuller.
Sense 4. The embolus or piston of a pump. Boyle.
Sense 5. A pipe through which any thing is drawn.
Sense 6. A small piece of leather, usually round, having a string attached to the center, and 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.
Sense 7. (Bot.) The shoot of a plant from the roots or lower part of the stem;—so called, perhaps, from diverting nourishment from the body of the plant.
Sense 8. (Ichth.) (a.) A fish of the family Cyclopteridæ; the lump-sucker or lump-fish. See LUMP-FISH. (b.) The sucking-fish. See SUCKING-FISH. (c.) A fresh-water fish of the carp family, and genus Catostomus. Storer.
Sense 9. An inhabitant of Illinois. [Colloq. U. S.]