Word.ws English Dictionary

suckup

suckup is the alternative form of suck-up.

Meaning of suck-up

Noun

suck-up (plural suck-ups)

  1. (derogatory, informal) A person who sucks up, or plays up through adulation or flattery or other such devices to win another's favour; a brown-noser.
    • Dulcie was already holding Lidiaʼs hand, and she didnʼt even know her! What a suck-up.2005, Helen Oyeyemi, The Icarus Girl, Bloomsbury, page 139

Forms of suckup

pluralsuckups

Origin of suckup

Deverbal from suck up.

Questions about suckup

What is suckup the alternative form of?
Suckup is the alternative form of suck-up.

Words near suckup in the dictionary

  1. suckstone
  2. suckstones
  3. suckt
  4. sucktacular
  5. sucktastic
  6. suckup
  7. suckups
  8. Suckville
  9. suckworthy
  10. sucky
  11. sucky sucky

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: suckup (page history and authors); suck-up (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “suckup.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/suckup. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.