Lollipop vs. Sucker

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  • Lollipop

    A lollipop is a type of sugar candy usually consisting of hard candy mounted on a stick and intended for sucking or licking. Different informal terms are used in different places, including lolly, sucker, sticky-pop, etc. Lollipops are available in many flavors and shapes.

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  • Lollipop (noun)

    An item of confectionery consisting of a piece of candy/sweet attached to a stick.

  • Sucker (noun)

    A person or animal that sucks, especially a breast or udder; especially a suckling animal, young mammal before it is weaned. from late 14th century

  • Sucker (noun)

    An undesired stem growing out of the roots or lower trunk of a shrub or tree, especially from the rootstock of a grafted plant or tree. from 1570s

  • Sucker (noun)

    A parasite; a sponger.

  • Sucker (noun)

    An organ or body part that does the sucking; especially a round structure on the bodies of some insects, frogs, and octopuses that allows them to stick to surfaces.

  • Sucker (noun)

    A thing that works by sucking something.

  • Sucker (noun)

    The embolus, or bucket, of a pump; also, the valve of a pump basket.

  • Sucker (noun)

    A pipe through which anything is drawn.

  • Sucker (noun)

    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; formerly used by children as a plaything.

  • Sucker (noun)

    A suction cup.

  • Sucker (noun)

    An animal such as the octopus and remora, which adhere to other bodies with such organs.

  • Sucker (noun)

    Any fish in the family Catostomidae of North America and eastern Asia, which have mouths modified into downward-pointing, suckerlike structures for feeding in bottom sediments from 1750s

  • Sucker (noun)

    A piece of candy which is sucked from 1820s; a lollipop from 1900s

  • Sucker (noun)

    A hard drinker; a soaker.

  • Sucker (noun)

    An inhabitant of Illinois.

  • Sucker (noun)

    A person who is easily deceived, tricked or persuaded to do something; a naive person from 1830s

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

  • Sucker (noun)

    A person irresistibly attracted by something specified.

    “A sucker for ghost stories.”

  • Sucker (noun)

    The penis.

  • Sucker (noun)

    A thing or object. Any thing or object being called attention to with emphasis, as in “this sucker”.

  • Sucker (noun)

    Generalized term of reference to a person.

    “See if you can get that sucker working again.”

  • Sucker (verb)

    To strip the suckers or shoots from; to deprive of suckers.

    “to sucker maize”

  • Sucker (verb)

    To produce suckers, to throw up additional stems or shoots.

  • Sucker (verb)

    To fool someone; to take advantage of someone.

    “The salesman suckered him into signing an expensive maintenance contract.”

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