a sucker

  • 71sucker bait — noun : a lure (as the promise of easy money) to attract a person to be swindled * * * Slang. an enticement calculated to lure a person into a scheme in which he or she may be victimized. * * * sucker bait, U.S. Slang. an enticement to attract a… …

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  • 72sucker-punch — transitive verb : to punch suddenly, without warning, and often without apparent provocation • sucker punch noun * * * sucker punch. /suk euhr punch /, v.t. Slang. to strike (someone) with an unexpected blow. * * * suckˈer punch noun …

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  • 73sucker — Hag Hag (h[a^]g), n. [OE. hagge, hegge, witch, hag, AS. h[ae]gtesse; akin to OHG. hagazussa, G. hexe, D. heks, Dan. hex, Sw. h[ a]xa. The first part of the word is prob. the same as E. haw, hedge, and the orig. meaning was perh., wood woman, wild …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 74sucker punch — transitive verb Date: 1964 to punch (a person) suddenly without warning and often without apparent provocation • sucker punch noun …

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  • 75Sucker punch — In street fighting slang, a sucker punch is a violent act, either one in which the person being attacked is caught completely off guard, especially by deception; or else an attack executed to disable another, targeting a place on the body that is …

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  • 76sucker — 1) any organ which has an adhesive action 2) a member of the mostly North American freshwater fish family Catostomidae 3) an easily tricked person. From the easily caught sucker or the innocence of a child feeding at the breast …

    Dictionary of ichthyology

  • 77sucker — noun Sucker is used before these nouns: ↑punch …

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  • 78Sucker — 1. Herkunftsname zu Ortsnamen wie Suckau (Schlesien), Suckow (Mecklenburg Vorpommern, ehem. Pommern/jetzt Polen, Brandenburg), Sukow (Mecklenburg Vorpommern, ehem. Pommern/jetzt Polen). 2. Übername zu mnd. sucker »Zucker« für den Zuckermacher… …

    Wörterbuch der deutschen familiennamen

  • 79sucker — I Australian Slang person easily deceived or imposed upon; dupe II U.S.A.; Pittsburgh, PA one who perpetrates; someone who has a lack of knowledge on certain subjects. Look, sucker, you ve messed with me long enough! …

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  • 80sucker — I n A person easily conned or deceived. Don t be a sucker; buy your car from someone you know. 1830s II v To swindle or cheat by deceit. He suckered me into dating his sister. 1840s …

    Historical dictionary of American slang