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Synonyms for sucker

Most common

sponger dupe rube object hag soaker

Synonyms by meaning

Noun

1. Parasite — A parasite; a sponger

parasite, leech, blood-sucker, free-loader, sponger, smell-feast dated

2. Fool — A person who is easily deceived, tricked or persuaded to do something; a naive or gullible person

fool, chump informal, gull, fall guy informal, soft touch, dupe, mug, patsy informal, mark, mouth, live one informal, easy mark informal, sap, rube, stooge, shoot, pigeon, greenhorn, cull, cully, saphead, fish slang

3. Lollipop

lollipop, all-day sucker US

4. Toy — the penis

diddle, toy slang, tool slang, piston slang

Other

sponge informal, branch, hag, scion, soaker, sprout, object, suck-pint dated, thing slang

Definitions

  1. n. 1

    A parasite; a sponger.

  2. n. 2

    A person who is easily deceived, tricked or persuaded to do something; a naive or gullible person.

    One poor sucker had actually given her his life’s savings.

  3. n. 3

    The penis.

  4. n. 4

    A person or animal that sucks, especially a breast or udder; especially a suckling animal, young mammal before it is weaned.

Forms

Plural
suckers → parasites, leeches, blood-suckers, free-loaders…

Example sentences

  • rube When I moved to New York, everyone I met treated me like a rube.
  • object You have chosen me as an object of your amusement.
  • hag One day I, too, would like to be a mean old hag.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
suckersteady
spongersteady
duperising
ruberising
objectrising
hagrising

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

3 letters
toy1, mug1, sap1, hag1
4 letters
mark1, fish1, tool1, fool1, gull1, cull1, dupe1, rube1
5 letters
thing1, mouth1, shoot1, leech1, patsy2, scion2, chump1, cully2
6 letters
branch1, object2, pigeon2, sponge1, piston2, sprout1, stooge1, diddle2, soaker2
7 letters
sponger, saphead
8 letters
parasite3, lollipop3
9 letters
greenhorn

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (patsy2 = 2 syllables).

In other languages

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