Short for "cock sucker", which is the days of non-political correctness and rampant homophobia was a serious and widespread insult/put down. "You suck" having the "cock" understood.

The connection to sucker meaning something like loser, therefore, is that someone who is a sucker for something may get into a bad situation as a result, or at the very least enjoys X to a …

Harold Wentworth & Stuart Flexner, Dictionary of American Slang, first edition (1960) has this entry for egg-sucker: egg-sucker n. One who seeks advancement through flattery, rather than …

Sucker punch seems to mean "an unexpected punch" in slang. What is the origin of this term and why does sucker mean unexpected in sucker punch?

The phrase "they saw you coming" is also commonly used in the US, implying you're so obviously a sucker, even a stranger could tell at a distance.

to milk a cow/goat/laugh/sucker In this sense, the subject deprives the direct object of the verb's noun (milk, or its metaphoric analogs in milking a laugh or milking a sucker), by removing it; …

Most fortuitously for you, just a couple of days ago I stumbled upon a book that answers this and most any question one might have on the word fuck and its multitudinous derivatives — …

There are many terms for victim of a thief or swindler besides mark. Among them are dupe stooge sucker fall guy chump patsy In games like chess, witless victims of chess sharps are called …

Mar 27, 2013 · What does this phrase mean? I never give a sucker an even break. Does it mean that the author of this saying is unwilling to offer somebody who he doesn't like a break/rest …

Nov 9, 2020 · A mysterious bird of night, bearing the sombre colours of the reed and the night upon his body, and bearing in his record the legend of goat-sucker, the etymology of which I …