Naive person, scam victim, sucker. Initially the name of salmons that remain in rivers for the winter after spawning it entered the criminal jargon with the meaning “(naive) peasant”. The German word Loch (Hole) or Polish łoch (short for włoch — Walachian, Romanian) may also have influenced the Russian word. Derivated forms: лохан, лохарь, лохня, лохушка.
Лохи не динозавры — они не вымрут.
Suckers are no dinosaurs, they don’t die out.


