suckers is a form of:
Sucker
- 1.
- (COLLOQUIAL) Candy sucker ស្ករគ្រាប់ corn sucker ខ្នែង (ដុះចេញពីគល់)
noun
- 1.
- (SLANG) មនុស្សភ្លើ
Example: What a sucker! - 2.
- (A person or thing that sucks, an organ of certain animals, a shoot comingup from the roots or underground stem of a tree or shrub, a person who is easily deceived, a lollipop, a freshwater fish of North America that has a mouth shaped as if for sucking together) ខ្នែងរុក្ខជាតិដុះ ចេញពីគល់ឈើ, ខ្នែងឈើ
verb — past tense: suckered ; past participle: suckered ; present participle: suckering ;
- 1.
- (TRANSITIVE) (1. To strip suckers or shoots from [plants]. 2. Informal. To trick; dupe: sucker a tourist into a confidence game. Botany. To send out suckers or shoots) sucker corn កាត់ខ្នែងចោល
ENGLISH MEANING
noun
- 1.
- A California food fish (Menticirrus undulatus) closely allied to the kingfish (a); -- called also bagre.
- 2.
- One who, or that which, sucks; esp., one of the organs by which certain animals, as the octopus and remora, adhere to other bodies.
- 3.
- A suckling; a sucking animal.
- 4.
- The embolus, or bucket, of a pump; also, the valve of a pump basket.
- 5.
- A pipe through which anything is drawn.
- 6.
- A small piece of leather, usually round, having a string attached to the center, 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.
- 7.
- A shoot from the roots or lower part of the stem of a plant; -- so called, perhaps, from diverting nourishment from the body of the plant.
- 8.
- Any one of numerous species of North American fresh-water cyprinoid fishes of the family Catostomidae; so called because the lips are protrusile. The flesh is coarse, and they are of little value as food. The most common species of the Eastern United States are the northern sucker (Catostomus Commersoni), the white sucker (C. teres), the hog sucker (C. nigricans), and the chub, or sweet sucker (Erimyzon sucetta). Some of the large Western species are called buffalo fish, red horse, black horse, and suckerel.
- 9.
- The hagfish, or myxine.
- 10.
- A hard drinker; a soaker.
- 11.
- A greenhorn; one easily gulled.
- 12.
- A nickname applied to a native of Illinois.
verb — past tense: suckered ; past participle: suckered ; present participle: suckering ;
- 1.
- (TRANSITIVE) To strip off the suckers or shoots from; to deprive of suckers; as, to sucker maize.
- 2.
- (INTRANSITIVE) To form suckers; as, corn suckers abundantly.
- 1.
- The remora
- 2.
- The lumpfish
- 3.
- A parasite, a sponger