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| suck [ suk ] |
verb (past and past participle sucked, present participle suck·ing, 3rd person present singular sucks) |
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1. transitive and intransitive verb draw liquid out with mouth: to draw the liquid out of something with the mouth
  The baby sucked on her bottle.
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2. transitive and intransitive verb make pulling mouth movements on something: to hold something in the mouth and make movements with the tongue and lips as if drawing liquid out of it
sucked his thumb
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3. transitive and intransitive verb make something dissolve in mouth: to consume something by making it slowly dissolve in the mouth, rolling the tongue around it
sucking cough drops for a sore throat
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4. transitive verb extract something: to draw something out of a container
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often passive
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Fuel is sucked into the cylinder.
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5. transitive verb pull something irresistibly: to pull or draw something somewhere with a powerful or irresistible force
The swirling currents suck swimmers under.
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6. intransitive verb be very bad: to be very bad or inferior
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slang
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The movie really sucked, so we walked out.
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noun (plural sucks) |
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act of sucking something: an act of sucking something
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| [ Old English sūcan< Indo-European, "take liquid"] |
