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sucker bait

[ suhk-er beyt ]

noun

Slang.
  1. an enticement calculated to lure a person into a scheme in which they may be victimized.


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51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins

Origin of sucker bait1

First recorded in 1935–40
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New hardcover EC reprints include Volume 3 of “The Vault of Horror,†from Dark Horse Comics in the revived EC Archives series — complete with the Old Witch, the Crypt-Keeper and the Vault-Keeper — and, in Fantagraphics’s EC Comics Library, “Zero Hour,†illustrated by Jack Kamen, and “Sucker Bait,†drawn by Graham Ingels.

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Cabinets were called “sucker bait†by Time Magazine, and games became harder to cater to hardcore fans rather than mainstream players.

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And while we may think there are some perfectly reasonable Muslim leaders and organizations here in the U.S., that is just more sucker bait sent our way.

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Too low a price could be sucker bait, discouraging alternative energy sources and conservation, and setting the stage for a bigger rip-off tomorrow.

The days are over when garden catalogues were synonyms for sucker bait.

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