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Noun sucker has 7 senses

chump, fool, gull, mark, patsy, fall guy, sucker, soft touch, mug - a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of
--₁ is a kind of victim, dupe

Derived form: verb suck₄
sucker - a shoot arising from a plant's roots
--₂ is a kind of shoot
sucker - a drinker who sucks (as at a nipple or through a straw)
--₃ is a kind of drinker

Derived form: verb suck₁
sucker - flesh of any of numerous North American food fishes with toothless jaws
--₄ is a kind of freshwater fish
--₄ is a part of sucker
lollipop, sucker, all-day sucker - hard candy on a stick
--₅ is a kind of candy
sucker - an organ specialized for sucking nourishment or for adhering to objects by suction
--₆ is a kind of organ
--₆ has particulars: cupule
Derived form: verb suck₅
sucker - mostly North American freshwater fishes with a thick-lipped mouth for feeding by suction; related to carps
--₇ is a kind of catostomid
--₇ is a member of Catostomidae, family Catostomidae
--₇ has part: sucker
--₇ has particulars:
buffalo fish, buffalofish; hog sucker, hog molly, Hypentelium nigricans; redhorse, redhorse sucker