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sucker

/suhk-er/US // ˈsʌk ər //UK // (ˈsʌkə) //

棒棒糖,棒棒哒,棒糖,棒棒棒

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person or thing that sucks.
    • : Informal. a person easily cheated, deceived, or imposed upon.
    • : an infant or a young animal that is suckled, especially a suckling pig.
    • : a part or organ of an animal adapted for sucking nourishment, or for adhering to an object as by suction.
    • : any of several freshwater, mostly North American food fishes of the family Catostomidae, having thick lips: some are now rare.
    • : Informal. a lollipop.
    • : the piston of a pump that works by suction, or the valve of such a piston.
    • : a pipe or tube through which something is drawn or sucked.
    • : Botany. a shoot rising from a subterranean stem or root.
    • : Informal. a person attracted to something as indicated: He's a sucker for new clothes.
    • : Slang. any person or thing: He's one of those smart, handsome suckers everybody likes. They're good boots, but the suckers pinch my feet.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : Slang. to make a sucker of; fool; hoodwink: another person suckered by a con artist.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to send out suckers or shoots, as a plant.

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Examples

  • Climate change could turn some dog ticks into suckers for humans instead of canines.

  • Embedded in the suckers, these cells enable the arms to do double duty of touch and taste by detecting chemicals produced by many aquatic creatures.

  • Detailed imaging identified what appeared to be sensory cells, some with fine branched endings, at the surface of suckers.

  • The regulatory action was a sucker punch to Citi, but Wilmarth argues that, in a way, it actually bolsters Fraser’s position.

  • After all, I was a hungry kid, and one of those suckers wasn’t going to satisfy my bottomless pit of an adolescent stomach.

  • Sucker," the young man taunted, "I should be fighting Patterson, not you.

  • Château Sucker Benjamin Wallace, New York Rare-wine collectors are savvy, competitive guys with a taste for impossible finds.

  • Indeed, Madame Sucker thought it quite vulgar in the tortoise to be so eager after the cakes and wine.

  • So she ran for the fording place on Sucker Creek, which was a good half mile above the shack in which the stranger was living.

  • Fish Hawk said, “I will take that fellow, Sucker, lying in the water there.”

  • Nothing doing in the way of buying booms around Sucker Brook.

  • When he reached the place where Wind Sucker lived, he looked into his mouth and saw there many dead people.