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sucked out of one's thumb

sucked out of one's thumb is the simple past and past participle of suck out of one's thumb.

Meaning of suck out of one's thumb

Verb

suck out of one's thumb (third-person singular simple present sucks out of one's thumb, present participle sucking out of one's thumb, simple past and past participle sucked out of one's thumb)

  1. (South Africa, informal, transitive) To make up, to fabricate, to pull out of one's ass.
    • One cannot lay a charge, a charge which has simply been sucked out of one's thumb, and then say that the onus rests on the person against whom the charge has been made, to prove that it is not so.1956, Debates of the House of Assembly (Hansard), Vol. 90/91/92, page 2185.

Questions about sucked out of one's thumb

What is sucked out of one's thumb the simple past and past participle of?
Sucked out of one's thumb is the simple past and past participle of suck out of one's thumb.

Words near sucked out of one's thumb in the dictionary

  1. sucked it up
  2. sucked it up, buttercup
  3. sucked off
  4. sucked one's teeth
  5. sucked out
  6. sucked out of one's thumb
  7. sucked rocks
  8. sucked someone's cock
  9. sucked someone's dick
  10. sucked the air out of
  11. sucked the kumara

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