sucker

A person who is easily tricked into believing something or giving away money.

• Don't be a sucker.
• Some poor sucker paid twice the usual price.
• They took me for a sucker and tried to cheat me.

Similar words: fool, dupe, sap

Common phrases: poor sucker, complete sucker, a total sucker

A person who likes someone or something so much that they find it hard to resist.

• I'm a sucker for chocolate.
• She's always been a sucker for romantic films.
• Are you a sucker for a friendly smile?

How to use it: be a sucker for someone/something (I'm a sucker for happy endings.)

Similar words: enthusiast, fan

Common phrases: sucker for something, sucker for someone, such a sucker

A sweet that you suck, especially one on the end of a stick.

• The child wanted a red sucker.
• She handed out suckers after the game.
• He unwrapped a cherry sucker and put it in his mouth.

Similar words: lollipop

Common phrases: cherry sucker, sucker stick, give someone a sucker

A thing you are talking about, often something large, difficult to handle, or impressive.

• This sucker is heavy!
• We finally got the sucker through the door.
• That new engine is one powerful sucker.

Similar words: thing

Common phrases: this sucker, big sucker, move the sucker

An animal, person, or device that draws in liquid by sucking.

• A leech is a blood sucker.
• These insects are sap suckers that damage young plants.
• The tiny blood suckers left itchy marks on her legs.

Common phrases: blood sucker, sap sucker, powerful sucker

An unwanted new stem growing from a plant's roots or the lower part of its trunk.

• Cut off the sucker near the roots.
• The rose bush keeps producing suckers.
• Remove suckers before they take strength from the main plant.

Similar words: root shoot

Common phrases: root sucker, remove a sucker, rose sucker

To trick someone into doing something or giving you something.

• Don't let them sucker you.
• She was suckered into paying for an expensive course.
• The scammers suckered him out of all his money.

How to use it: sucker someone into doing something (The advertisement suckered me into buying a useless gadget.); sucker someone out of something (They suckered him out of his savings.)

Similar words: trick, fool, con, dupe

Common phrases: sucker someone into something, sucker someone into buying, sucker someone out of

To remove unwanted new stems growing from a plant's roots or lower trunk.

• We need to sucker the roses.
• The gardener suckered the young trees in spring.
• They spent the morning suckering the maize.

Common phrases: sucker the maize, sucker a plant, sucker the roses