sucks

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Sirius XM chief: regular radio "sucks" - LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Mel Karmazin, trying to shore up Wall Street support for Sirius XM Radio, told analysts that regular radio

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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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  • And the few adults who claim to have really enjoyed their adolescence tend to emit a sweetness that kind of sucks, an imago-like pretense that they actively welcome being haunted from within; that the caul-encumbered inner child, which had somehow failed to pass the baton, was somehow still their friend . —  InterzoneScienceFictionandFantasyMagazine#213
  • Sheep do not think hey this product sucks, they just see everyone has to have one and they go out and buy them over and over. —  Original Signal - Transmitting Digg
  • It sucks, which is a shame as there are some great male pop singers out there, but in my opinion females are more accepted by society if they go against the norm.
  • You think it sucks, therefore, for you, it does suck. —  Answerbag: Latest Questions in Question Categories
  • This is a genre of seventies music that we started out calling "Lido Rock," but now we've been referring to it as "Wow, this sucks -- turn it up!" —  Funny Strange is Lori Culwell's blog.
 

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