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suck lemons

suck lemons is the alternative form of suck a lemon.

Meaning of suck a lemon

Verb

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

  1. (UK, idiomatic) To be in a sour or negative mood.
    • I knew he must've woke up sucking a lemon when he didn't even say hello.

Forms of suck lemons

third-person singular presentsucks lemons
present participlesucking lemons
past participlesucked lemons
pastsucked lemons

Questions about suck lemons

What is suck lemons the alternative form of?
Suck lemons is the alternative form of suck a lemon.

Words near suck lemons in the dictionary

  1. suck into
  2. suck it
  3. suck it and see
  4. suck it up
  5. suck it up, buttercup
  6. suck lemons
  7. suck my balls
  8. suck my cock
  9. suck my dick
  10. suck my penis
  11. suck my Richard

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Adapted from Wiktionary: suck lemons (page history and authors); suck a lemon (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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