- 1[transitive] suck something (+ adv./prep.) to take liquid, air, etc. into your mouth by using the muscles of your lips to suck the juice from an orange She was noisily sucking up milk through a straw. He sucked the blood from a cut on his finger.
- 2[intransitive, transitive] to keep something in your mouth and pull on it with your lips and tongue suck at/on something The baby sucked at its mother's breast. She sucked on a mint. suck something She sucked a mint. Stop sucking your thumb!
- 3[transitive] to take liquid, air, etc. out of something suck something + adv./prep. The pump sucks air out through the valve. suck something + adj. Greenfly can literally suck a plant dry.
- 4[transitive] suck somebody/something + adv./prep. to pull someone or something with great force in a particular direction The canoe was sucked down into the whirlpool. The mud had sucked him in up to his waist.
- 5something sucks [intransitive] (slang) used to say that something is very bad Their new album sucks. compare rock Idioms
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NAmE//sʌk//
Verb Forms present simple I / you / we / they suck he / she / it sucks
past simple sucked
-ing form sucking
to get from someone or something all the money, help, information, etc. they have, usually giving nothing in return By earning millions from racing and giving pennies back, the bookmakers are sucking the sport dry.
to accept something bad and deal with it well, controlling your emotions Phrasal Verbssuck insuck up
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