suck

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  1. transitive verb To draw (liquid) into the mouth by movements of the tongue and lips that create suction.
  2. transitive verb To draw in by establishing a partial vacuum: a cleaning device that sucks up dirt.
  3. transitive verb To draw in by or as if by a current in a fluid.
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  • I introduced the typists to what I called the suck-it-and-see approach to finding things out on the computer and was met with looks of horror.
  • It's not that those other places suck, they just suck compared to —  This Just In
  • Service sucks ... servers suck, and the food isnt all that great.
  • While most video game film adaptations suck, the low-budget, high-gloss —  Kotaku
  • So while there's no doubt social networking sites can be a huge time suck, they certainly have their advantages. —  Business and financial news - CNNMoney.com
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boob ·  bigbutt ·  pussy ·  dick ·  suction ·  shemale ·  porno ·  asian ·  milf ·  throb ·  tit ·  yu

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suck:   sucked ·  sucking ·  sucks
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Etymologies (4)

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  1. Middle English suken, from Old English sūcan; see seuə-2 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Early modern English also souke; from Middle English souken, sowken, suken (preterit sec, soc, soek, sok), from Anglo-Saxon sūcan (preterit seác, past participle socen), also sūgan = Middle Dutch suyghen, Dutch zuigen = Middle Low German sūgen = Old High German sūgan, Middle High German sūgen, German saugen = Icelandic sjūga, sūga = Swedish suga = Danish suge, suck (Gothic (Moesogothic) not recorded): Teutonic root in two forms, √ suk and √ sug; = Welsh sugno, suck, = Gaelic sug, suck, = Old Irish sugim, Irish sughaim, suck, = Latin sūgere (past participle suctus) (Late Latin *suctiare, later Italian succiare = Old French succer, sucer), suck (cf. Latin sucus, succus, juice: see succulent, suction); = Lettish sugu, suck, = Old Bulgarian sŭsati, suck. Hence ult. soak (of which the Middle English form soken was more or less confused with the Middle English forms of suck), suckle, suckling, honeysuckle, etc.
  2. from suck, v. Cf. suck, n.
  3. from Old French (and F.) suc = Spanish suco = Portuguese succo = Italian succo, sugo, from Latin succus, properly sūcus, juice, moisture, from sugere, past participle suctus, suck: see suck, v., and cf. suck, n., with which suck is confused.
 

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