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sucking out of one's thumb

sucking out of one's thumb is the present participle and gerund 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 sucking out of one's thumb

What is sucking out of one's thumb the present participle and gerund of?
Sucking out of one's thumb is the present participle and gerund of suck out of one's thumb.

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

  1. sucking lice
  2. sucking louse
  3. sucking off
  4. sucking one's teeth
  5. sucking out
  6. sucking out of one's thumb
  7. sucking rocks
  8. sucking someone's cock
  9. sucking someone's dick
  10. sucking the air out of
  11. sucking the kumara

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