Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To draw (liquid) into the mouth by movements of the tongue and lips that create suction.
- v. To draw in by establishing a partial vacuum: a cleaning device that sucks up dirt.
- v. To draw in by or as if by a current in a fluid.
- v. To draw or pull as if by suction: teenagers who are sucked into a life of crime.
- v. To draw nourishment through or from: suck a baby bottle.
- v. To hold, moisten, or maneuver (a sweet, for example) in the mouth.
- v. Vulgar Slang To perform fellatio on.
- v. To draw something in by or as if by suction: felt the drain starting to suck.
- v. To draw nourishment; suckle.
- v. To make a sound caused by suction.
- v. Vulgar Slang To be disgustingly disagreeable or offensive.
- n. The act or sound of sucking.
- n. Suction.
- n. Something drawn in by sucking.
- suck in To take advantage of; cheat; swindle.
- suck up Slang To behave obsequiously; fawn.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To draw into the mouth by action of the lips and tongue which produces a partial vacuum.
- To draw something from with the mouth; specifically, to draw milk from.
- To draw in or imbibe by any process; inhale; absorb: usually with in, out, away, etc.: as, to suck in air; a sponge sucks in water.
- To draw or drain.
- To draw in, as a whirlpool; swallow up; in-gulf.
- To draw in or obtain by fraudulent devices; soak.
- To cheat; deceive; take in.
- To draw fluid into the mouth; draw by producing a vacuum, as with a tube.
- To draw milk from a teat: said of the young of a mammal.
- To draw air when the water is low or the valve imperfect: said of a pump.
- n. Suction by the mouth or in any way; the act of sucking; a sucking force.
- n. Nourishment drawn from the breast.
- n. A small draught.
- n. Rum or liquor of some kind.
- n. Same as sucket, 1.
- n. Juice; succulence.
Wiktionary
- n. Canada A weak, self-pitying person; a person who won't go along, especially out of spite; a crybaby or sore loser.
- n. A sycophant, especially a child.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To draw, as a liquid, by the action of the mouth and tongue, which tends to produce a vacuum, and causes the liquid to rush in by atmospheric pressure; to draw, or apply force to, by exhausting the air.
- v. To draw liquid from by the action of the mouth; ; specifically, to draw milk from (the mother, the breast, etc.) with the mouth.
- v. To draw in, or imbibe, by any process resembles sucking; to inhale; to absorb.
- v. To draw or drain.
- v. To draw in, as a whirlpool; to swallow up.
- v. To draw, or attempt to draw, something by suction, as with the mouth, or through a tube.
- v. To draw milk from the breast or udder.
- v. To draw in; to imbibe; to partake.
- v. colloq. To be objectionable, of very poor quality, or offensive.
- n. The act of drawing with the mouth.
- n. That which is drawn into the mouth by sucking; specifically, mikl drawn from the breast.
- n. colloq. A small draught.
- n. obsolete Juice; succulence.
WordNet 3.0
- v. provide sexual gratification through oral stimulation
- v. draw into the mouth by creating a practical vacuum in the mouth
- n. the act of sucking
- v. take in, also metaphorically
- v. draw something in by or as if by a vacuum
- v. be inadequate or objectionable
- v. attract by using an inexorable force, inducement, etc.
- v. give suck to
Etymologies
- Middle English souken, suken, from Old English sūcan ("to suck"), from Proto-Germanic *sūkanan, *sūganan (“to suck, suckle”), from Proto-Indo-European *seug-, *sug-, *suk-. Cognate with Scots souke ("to suck"), obsolete Dutch zuiken ("to suck"). Akin also to Old English sūgan ("to suck"), West Frisian sûge, sûgje ("to suck"), Dutch zuigen ("to suck"), German saugen ("to suck"), Swedish suga ("to suck"), Icelandic sjúga ("to suck"), Latin sugō ("suck"), Welsh sugno ("suck"). Related to soak. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English suken, from Old English sūcan; see seuə-2 in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“There's a helephant coming, and you can hear the _suck, suck, suck_ of his feet in the mud plainer and plainer.”
“_Plosh, plosh, suck, suck_ of the elephants 'feet went on in the same monotonous way.”
“Now it is ready to once again suck the water out of more hapless slugs.”
“I think the reason that I am not cooler is that coolness is finite and people like Justin suck up more than their fair share.”
“The Republicans in California and Texas are envious of red states like Alabama, Alabama, South Carolina, Kentucky, ect., whose Republican run governments suck from the teat of the federal government.”
Think Progress » Gov. Perry wants to bring California’s budget misery to Texas.
“I mean come on labels suck is the gist of your argument, but I hear Olmos touting Latinos regularly, and guess what.”
“Unlike many liberals who suck from the government tit, I have not only one job but two, and in fact have partnered in several other endeavors some of which have been successful and some not so (it is called entrepreneurship).”
“Ironic that my single-biggest time-suck is Lifehacker, and you're helping me browse less.”
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“Alec is a Great actor, but while he is a great actor his politics just plain suck, as do alot of other actors views.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘suck’.
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RELI - Genesis
Protagonists and relevant words in the Book of Creation (Source: King James Bible)
Laban, circumcise, beget, Esau, Rebekah, speckle, Sodom, Pharaoh, Canaanite, Canaan, Jacob, Lot and 1286 more...
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EN-HU - important words for a HU inte...
Words only (I left out the expressions) from Geza Kerenyi's EN-HU interpreters' dictionary. Most of them pose some difficulty when interpreted between HU and EN in either or both directions.
abalone, abrasive, abstractionist, abstruse, abysmal, academia, accessibility, accessible, acclimate, accolade, accompanist, achiever and 1469 more...
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Words the sound like their meaning
love, hate, butterfly, whisper, shout, boil, simmer, glide, kiss, wisp, hum, hammer and 30 more...
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Public List: Free Association
Read the top word on the list and add a word that you associate with it. The association may be semantic, etymological, structural, literary, personal, etc.
Rules:
1. In t...mounch, mensch, trench, war, harmony, guitar, cigar, bubblegum, baseball cards, shortstop, bear, chained and 72 more...
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sort of sexy
pressure, press, urgency, squeezing, influence, compel, push, tease, thrust, full, drive, urge on and 99 more...
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cindywrites's Words
chiaroscuro, mollycoddle, feckless, evocative, provocative, invocation, beckon, allay, becalm, console, lull, soothe and 479 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
a, abandon, ability, able, abortion, about, above, abroad, absence, absolute, absolutely, absorb and 4334 more...
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
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the physical experience
wank, snog, tendon, sinew, sauce shelf, pet, arse, astigmatism, bisexual, brassiere, breast, climax and 186 more...
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soul mate
soul mate, soul mates, soul, portishead, wounded, death, depression, hurt, the cure, pain, longing, rat and 424 more...
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Sexy words
Sexy words
lick, suck, moan, smooth, silky, groan, skin, lips, cock, breasts, ass, back and 36 more...
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I can make you weak/ and if you dive ...
sexy/dirty
grind, moan, tease, cunt, fuck, lick, bite, come, breathless, suck, delicious, honey and 2 more...
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asleeponthesun's Words
harlequin, exquisite, supernova, mesmerize, wretched, reciprocate, legendary, mirror, slumber, capital, monastic, synergistic and 71 more...
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cbars420's Words
boob, wiener, monkey, dookie, anal, breast, tit, melon, student, teach, kitten, sex and 82 more...
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subdermal irritants
ointment, flummox, kinnikinnick, lozenge, blabbermouth, blurb, blurb, lollies, fizzy drink, fizzy drink, yawning, suck it and 41 more...
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words that give me pleasure
shoe, 天下, rhythm, verbing, 屌, 國, scepticism, ameliorate, neologism, patata, �?負, nigger and 40 more...
Tweets
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chained_bear "I was a baby when I learned to suck
But you have raised it to an art form."
—Barenaked Ladies, "Wind It Up" Feb 25, 2009
reesetee Thank you, c_b, for pointing that out. Oct 20, 2008
trailingedge Good point chained_bear. Oct 19, 2008
chained_bear You're assuming you know everyone's gender here, trailingedge! :) Also... I won't ask where Lady Macbeth fits in. Maybe I'm androgynous. Oct 19, 2008
pterodactyl "Remember: if the world did not suck, we would all fall off."
--posted in a coworker's cubicle Oct 19, 2008
trailingedge Interesting. The females associate suck with vacuum cleaners & the guys with oral sex.
But then guys tend to associate most everything with sex including vacuum cleaners.
Oct 19, 2008
plethora Not at all, c_b. Lady Macbeth is teh alsome. I can see why she'd stick in your mind. Oct 18, 2008
gangerh I am reminded of the comment heard of an ante-tooth baby - "He doesn't bite, but he's got a nasty suck". Oct 18, 2008
arcadia Vampires and abortions. Oct 17, 2008
chained_bear Sometimes, after vacuums, I think of Lady Macbeth.
Is that weird? Oct 17, 2008
skipvia No argument here, Asa... Oct 17, 2008
asativum I usually think of oral sex (when I hear the word suck, that is). But sometimes I think of Ross Perot. Which is just disturbing. Oct 17, 2008
yarb Well, I think of oral sex. Oct 17, 2008
reesetee C_b, that cartoonist has done a whole series of wordplays like that. *runs off to find more* Oct 17, 2008
dontcry I think of something/someone really bad, not good, sub-par, crappy, etc. Oct 17, 2008
chained_bear How timely. I need to get a new vacuum, and very soon. Maybe I'll look for a SuckMaster 3000.
This conversation reminds me of a certain cartoon... *goes to look for it*
Edit: Here it is. Oct 17, 2008
reesetee I used to call my brand-new (now not-so-new) vacuum cleaner the SuckMaster 3000. Boy, does it ever suck. Oct 17, 2008
chained_bear I think of vacuum cleaners too, actually. I wonder if that's gender-related...? Oct 17, 2008
frindley Me too. My most common use of the word (other than the negative "that sucks") is when talking about my favourite brand of dustbuster, which not only has an amazing battery life but also "plenty of suck". Oct 17, 2008
reesetee I think of vacuum cleaners. Oct 17, 2008
bilby Lately it brings to mind 'the Nutsucker', a large machine used by hazelnut farmers to hoover up nuts from under the trees.
"Boy, can this thing really suck nuts! It also picks up twigs and leaves which then have to be removed manually."
- interview with hazelnut farm manager on ABC Radio National, 17 October 2008. Oct 17, 2008
mollusque I usually think of the alternative to the theory of gravity. Oct 17, 2008
smrtrthnu the first thing that enters one's mind when the word is mentioned is usually oral sex.
Oct 17, 2008
chained_bear I added this to skipvia's free association list (click here) but I think I might be playing wrong... The reason I added it is because I hate sports. "Suck" is the first thing I thought of when I read "baseball cards." Feb 5, 2008