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suck

/sʌk/

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Ireland/sʊk/

suck noun: an instance of drawing something into one's lungs by inhaling or into one's mouth by suction.

Noun

suck (countable and uncountable, plural sucks)

  1. An instance of drawing something into one's lungs by inhaling or into one's mouth by suction.
    • Bammer agreed “Probably a good idea,” he agreed with a quick suck on his straw, “won't stop you from picking up any of these chicks, though.”2001, D. Martin Doney, Prayer Capsule: A Book of Honesty, page 261
  2. (uncountable) Milk drawn from the breast.
    • The infant took suck in an instant, pulling strongly.2010, Barbara Tieken, Bull Vaulter: Alena of the Isle of Green, page 202
  3. An indrawing of gas or liquid caused by suction.
    • On a proper workbench this can often be achieved between the end vice and a dog, though more sophisticated products use either the suck of a vacuum cleaner or just friction.2005, Nick Gibbs, Ultimate Woodworking Course, page 136
  4. (uncountable) The ability to suck; suction.
    • Vacuum for the park Mosuc is a street and park vacuum cleaner which its designers, Hollowell Engineering, Dearborn, Michigan, like to claim has more suck than most[.]1972, Design, numbers 277-282, page 68
    • [D]rop the head for less suck or raise it for more. A plow should not have too much suck or it will run on its nose in hard land and put unnecessary weight.2017, Oliver B. Zimmerman, Internal Combustion Engines and Tractors, page 153
  5. A part of a river towards which strong currents converge making navigation difficult.
    • Marvelous stories were told of "the suck" in early times. It was said that the water was so compressed that it would bear an ax.1879, Edward Deering Mansfield, Personal Memories, Social, Political, and Literary, page 302
  6. (Canada) A weak, self-pitying person; a person who refuses to go along with others, especially out of spite; a crybaby or sore loser.
    • “Why're you bothering to take her anywhere? I can't stand traveling with her. You're such a suck,” her sister said. Waved her smoke. “No fucking way I'm going.”1999, Hiromi Goto, “Drift”, in Ms., volume 9, number 3, pages 82–6
    • I used to think she was such a suck! She'd cry when I took to the ice, whether I skated well or badly. She'd cry when I left the house.2008, Beth Hitchcock, “Parenting Pair”, in Today's Parent, volume 25, number 5, page 64
    Synonyms:
    sook, sooky baby
  7. A sycophant, especially a child.
    • You are McGlade's suck.1916, James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Macmillan Press, page 23
  8. (dated, slang) A short drink, especially a dram of spirits.
  9. (vulgar) An act of fellatio.
    • Nate exhaled a long, slow breath. What the hell was he thinking? He couldn't cruise the steam room looking for married men looking for a quick suck. He needed to shoot his load, but was he really that desperate?2012, Alex Carreras, Cruising with Destiny, page 12
  10. (Canada, US, slang, uncountable, sometimes considered vulgar) Badness or mediocrity.
    • You don't have to call me on for everything, ok? I'm aware of my suck.2019, Justin Blackburn, The Bisexual Christian Suburban Failure Enlightening Bipolar Blues, page 34

Verb

suck (third-person singular simple present sucks, present participle sucking, simple past and past participle sucked)

  1. (transitive) To use the mouth and lips to pull in (a liquid, especially milk from the breast).
    • The baby sucked (milk) on her bottle.
  2. (intransitive) To perform such an action; to feed from a breast or teat.
  3. (transitive) To put the mouth or lips to (a breast, a parent etc.) to draw in milk.
  4. (transitive) To extract, draw in (a substance) from or out of something.
    • That she may sucke their life, and drinke their blood, / With which she from her childhood had bene fed.1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.i
    Synonyms:
    aspirate
  5. (archaic, transitive) To inhale (air), to draw (breath).
    • And ſince we all haue ſuckt on[e] wholſome aire, / And with the ſame proportion of Elements, / Reſolue, I hope we are reſembled, / Uowing our loues to equall death and life, […]c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC...
  6. (transitive) To work the lips and tongue on (an object) to extract moisture or nourishment; to absorb (something) in the mouth.
  7. (transitive) To pull (something) in a given direction, especially without direct contact.
    • Cigarette smoke was sucked out through the cracks in the glass of the glazed panes overhead the side street and the parking lot.1976 August 14, Matthew Wolfe, “Cruising a Tea Room or; Does Gertrude Stein Really Drink Coffee”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 7, page 15
  8. (slang, transitive, vulgar) To perform fellatio.
    • the way he arched his back and spread his legs when he wanted me to suck him.1973 January 15, Lou Sullivan, Diary
    • Right now, she's content to lie underneath him and suck the warmth out of his body.1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, page 356
  9. (Canada, US, colloquial, intransitive, sometimes, stative) To be inferior or objectionable: a general term of disparagement, sometimes used with at to indicate a particular area of deficiency.
    • Schumacher recalls Bucher had also written “Communism sucks” on the underside of his table1969 November 2, Sid Moody with Jules Loh and Richard Meyer, “The USS Pueblo: 22: Panmunjom: General Pak Had One Last Trump”, in Charlotte Observer, page H-25
    • it has a few very high points . . . but as a novel, it sucks1970 January 8, Hunter S. Thompson, “[letter to Steve Geller]”, in Fear and Loathing in America, New York: Simon & Schuster, published 2000, →ISBN, page 251

suck meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

suck in Hindi

(transitive) to use the mouth to pull in (liquid, etc)
चूसना cūsnā

suck in Tamil

உறிஞ்சு

suck in Marathi

(transitive) to use the mouth to pull in (liquid, etc)
चोखणे ċokhṇe

suck in Urdu

(transitive) to use the mouth to pull in (liquid, etc)
چوسنا cūsnā
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suck in Bengali
চোষা cōśa
suck in Telugu
చీకు cīku
suck in Malayalam
ഊമ്പുക ūmpuka
suck in Kannada
ಚೀಪು cīpu
suck in Punjabi
ਚੂਸਣਾ cūsṇā, ਚਗਲ਼ਨਾ cagḷanā
suck in Odia
ଚୁଚୁମିବା cucumibā, ଚୁଷିବା cuṣibā
suck in Sanskrit
धयति dhayati
suck in Sinhala
උරනවා uranawā
suck in Nepali
चुस्नु cusnu
suck in Pashto
زبېښل zbex̌ᶕl, شپېلل špelǝ́l
suck in Tagalog
sipsip, higop, hagip, chupa
suck in Arabic
مَصَّة maṣṣa, مَصَّ maṣṣa, رَشَفَ rašafa
suck in Malay
hisap, sedut, hirup
suck in Indonesian
isap
suck in Persian
مک mak, میک mik, مکیدن makidan
suck in Thai
ดูด dùut, ห่วย hùai, แย่ yɛ̂ɛ
suck in Vietnamese
bú, mút
suck in Myanmar
စုပ် cup
Sindhi
چوسڻ cosṇ

Examples of suck in a sentence

  • The rest of the graphics suck — they might have looked worthy in 1984, but now they're quite the opposite.1988, "Vixen" (video game review) in Your Sinclair (issue 32, page 70)
  • Garfield: Well, another year is almost under the belt / And I've had 313 pretty good days / The Mondays sucked.1990 December 31, Jim Davis, Garfield Takes Up Space (Garfield) (comic):

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Synonyms of suck

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Forms of suck

Noun
pluralsucks
Verb
third-person singular presentsucks
present participlesucking
past participlesucked
pastsucked

Past tense of suck: sucked

Plural of suck: sucks

Origin of suck

From Middle English souken, suken, from Old English sūcan (“to suck”), from Proto-West Germanic *sūkan, from Proto-Germanic *sūkaną (“to suck, suckle”), from Proto-Indo-European *sewg-, *sewk- (“to suck”). Cognate with Scots souke (“to suck”), obsolete Dutch zuiken (“to suck”), Limburgish zuken, zoeken (“to suck”). Akin also to Old English sūgan (“to suck”), West Frisian sûge, sûge (“to suck”), Dutch zuigen (“to suck”), German saugen (“to suck”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål suge (“to suck”), Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish suga (“to suck”), Icelandic sjúga (“to suck”), Latin sūgō (“suck”), Welsh sugno (“suck”). Related to soak.

Words formed from suck

Phrases with suck

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Questions about suck

What does suck mean?
Suck means an instance of drawing something into one's lungs by inhaling or into one's mouth by suction.
What is suck in Hindi?
Suck in Hindi is चूसना (cūsnā). See Suck meaning in Hindi.
How do you use suck in a sentence?
The rest of the graphics suck — they might have looked worthy in 1984, but now they're quite the opposite.
What part of speech is suck?
Suck can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce suck?
Suck is pronounced /sʌk/ (US).
What is the plural of suck?
The plural of suck is sucks.

Words near suck in the dictionary

  1. Suchy
  2. Suchys
  3. SUCI
  4. Sucio
  5. Suciu
  6. suck
  7. suck a bag of dicks
  8. suck a big one
  9. suck a lemon
  10. suck all the air out of
  11. suck all the oxygen out of

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: suck (page history and authors); suck (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ഊമ്പുക (Malayalam) (page history and authors); ಚೀಪು (Kannada) (page history and authors); ਚਗਲ਼ਨਾ (Punjabi) (page history and authors); ଚୁଚୁମିବା (Odia) (page history and authors); උරනවා (Sinhala) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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