suck
[verb]
Synonyms: stink
[noun]
Synonyms: sycophant, bootlicker, footlicker, lickspit, lickspittle, reptile, toad, toadeater, truckler, yes-man

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I. suck¹ S3 /sʌk/ verb
[Language: Old English; Origin: sucan]

1. [intransitive and transitive] to take air, liquid etc into your mouth by making your lips form a small hole and using the muscles of your mouth to pull it in
suck something in
Michael put the cigarette to his lips and sucked in the smoke.
suck at
a baby sucking at its mother’s breast
suck something up
Jennie sucked up the last bit of milk shake with her straw.

2. [intransitive and transitive] to hold something in your mouth and pull on it with your tongue and lips:
Don’t suck your thumb, dear.
suck on
a picture of Lara sucking on a lollipop

3. [transitive] to pull someone or something with great power and force into or out of a particular place
suck something into something
A bird was sucked into one of the jet’s engines.
suck somebody/something under/down
The river sucked him under.
suck something out of/from something
The fluid was sucked from his lungs.

4. something sucks spoken not polite used when you dislike something very much or think something is very bad:
If you ask me, the whole thing sucks.

5. suck it and see British English informal to use something or do something for a short time, to find out if it works, if you like it etc
be sucked in (also be sucked into something) phrasal verb
to become involved in a situation, especially a bad situation, when you do not want to:
The US has no intention of getting sucked into another war in Europe.
suck up phrasal verb informal
to say or do a lot of nice things in order to make someone like you or to get what you want – used to show disapproval
suck up to
He’s always sucking up to the boss.

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

II. suck² noun [countable usually singular]
an act of sucking

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

suck
verb
ADV. noisily She was noisily sucking up milk through a straw.
away, in, out, up She sucked away on her thumb. He cut the orange in half and sucked out the juice.
PREP. at He sucked at the wound on his hand.
from The machine sucks up mud and stones from the bottom of the pond.
into, on The baby sucked on her bottle.
out of, through

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