Clues for the word "SUCKER"
We've had 17 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 25 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on December 26, 2025.
Definition of sucker
- n. - One who, or that which, sucks; esp., one of the organs by which certain animals, as the octopus and remora, adhere to other bodies.
- n. - A suckling; a sucking animal.
- n. - The embolus, or bucket, of a pump; also, the valve of a pump basket.
- n. - A pipe through which anything is drawn.
- n. - 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.
- n. - 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.
- n. - 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.
- n. - The remora.
- n. - The lumpfish.
- n. - The hagfish, or myxine.
- n. - A California food fish (Menticirrus undulatus) closely allied to the kingfish (a); -- called also bagre.
- n. - A parasite; a sponger. See def. 6, above.
- n. - A hard drinker; a soaker.
- n. - A greenhorn; one easily gulled.
- n. - A nickname applied to a native of Illinois.
- v. t. - To strip off the suckers or shoots from; to deprive of suckers; as, to sucker maize.
- v. i. - To form suckers; as, corn suckers abundantly.
Referring Clues
- Chump
- Sap
- Dupe
- Gullible person
- Scam victim or freshwater fish
- Lollipop
- Mug - one using a straw?
- Person wanting compensation about fashionable label for mug
- Leech victim
- Fool to stick with?
- Sap springing from base of tree
- Naive type: shoot
- Fool requiring sound support
- Dupe's audible relief
- Simpleton - one with a straw in his mouth?
- The fool with the lollipop?
- Shoot the dope!
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 26, 2025
- Daily American - September 16, 2024
- Daily American - April 24, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - February 10, 2024
- Daily American - September 16, 2022
- New York Times - November 24, 2021
- LA Times - August 24, 2017
- Penny Dell Daily - May 24, 2017
- New York Times - September 20, 2016
- Canadiana - January 11, 2016
- Guardian Cryptic - November 04, 2015
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - August 07, 2014
- Guardian Quick - August 05, 2014
- Guardian Speedy - July 20, 2014
- Universal - June 06, 2014
- Guardian Cryptic - July 24, 2012
- Guardian Quick - June 27, 2011
- Onion A.V. Club - December 08, 2010
- Washington Post - October 15, 2010
- Guardian Prize - August 02, 2008
- Thinks Daily - September 24, 2007
- Guardian Quiptic - September 24, 2007
- Universal - February 27, 2007
- Guardian Quiptic - April 08, 2002
- Guardian Prize - November 10, 2001