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sucks out of one's thumb

sucks out of one's thumb is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 sucks out of one's thumb

What is sucks out of one's thumb the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Sucks out of one's thumb is the third-person singular simple present indicative of suck out of one's thumb.

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

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

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