Suck·er n.
 1. One who, or that which, sucks; esp., one of the organs by which certain animals, as the octopus and remora, adhere to other bodies.
 2. A suckling; a sucking animal.
 3. The embolus, or bucket, of a pump; also, the valve of a pump basket.
 4. A pipe through which anything is drawn.
 5. 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.
 6. Bot. 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.
 7. Zool. (a) 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 (Catostomus teres), the hog sucker (Catostomus 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. (b) The remora. (c) The lumpfish. (d) The hagfish, or myxine. (e) A California food fish (Menticirrus undulatus) closely allied to the kingfish (a); -- called also bagre.
 8. A parasite; a sponger. See def. 6, above.
    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.   --Fuller.
 9. A hard drinker; a soaker. [Slang]
 10. A greenhorn; someone easily cheated, gulled, or deceived. [Slang, U.S.]
 11. A nickname applied to a native of Illinois. [U. S.]
 Carp sucker, Cherry sucker, etc. See under Carp, Cherry, etc.
 Sucker fish. See Sucking fish, under Sucking.
 Sucker rod, a pump rod. See under Pump.
 Sucker tube Zool., one of the external ambulacral tubes of an echinoderm, -- usually terminated by a sucker and used for locomotion. Called also sucker foot. See Spatangoid.


 Cher·ry n.
 1. Bot. A tree or shrub of the genus Prunus (Which also includes the plum) bearing a fleshy drupe with a bony stone; (a) The common garden cherry (Prunus Cerasus), of which several hundred varieties are cultivated for the fruit, some of which are, the begarreau, blackheart, black Tartarian, oxheart, morelle or morello, May-duke (corrupted from Médoc in France). (b) The wild cherry; as, Prunus serotina (wild black cherry), valued for its timber; Prunus Virginiana (choke cherry), an American shrub which bears astringent fruit; Prunus avium and Prunus Padus, European trees (bird cherry).
 2. The fruit of the cherry tree, a drupe of various colors and flavors.
 3. The timber of the cherry tree, esp. of the black cherry, used in cabinetmaking, etc.
 4. A peculiar shade of red, like that of a cherry.
 Barbadoes cherry. See under Barbadoes.
 Cherry bird Zool., an American bird; the cedar bird; -- so called from its fondness for cherries.
 Cherry bounce, cherry brandy and sugar.
 Cherry brandy, brandy in which cherries have been steeped.
 Cherry laurel Bot., an evergreen shrub (Prunus Lauro-cerasus) common in shrubberies, the poisonous leaves of which have a flavor like that of bitter almonds.
 Cherry pepper Bot., a species of Capsicum (Capsicum cerasiforme), with small, scarlet, intensely piquant cherry-shaped fruit.
 Cherry pit. (a) A child's play, in which cherries are thrown into a hole. --Shak. (b) A cherry stone.
 Cherry rum, rum in which cherries have been steeped.
 Cherry sucker Zool., the European spotted flycatcher (Musicapa grisola); -- called also cherry chopper cherry snipe.
 Cherry tree, a tree that bears cherries.
 Ground cherry, Winter cherry, See Alkekengi.