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Bammer agreed “Probably a good idea,” he agreed with a quick suck on his straw, “won't stop you from picking up any of these chicks, though.”

2001, D. Martin Doney, Prayer Capsule: A Book of Honesty, page 261:

An instance of drawing something into one's mouth by inhaling.

The infant took suck in an instant, pulling strongly.

2010, Barbara Tieken, Bull Vaulter: Alena of the Isle of Green, page 202:

(uncountable) Milk drawn from the breast.

On a proper workbench this can often be achieved between the end vice and a dog, though more sophisticated products use either the suck of a vacuum cleaner or just friction.

2005, Nick Gibbs, Ultimate Woodworking Course, page 136:

An indrawing of gas or liquid caused by suction.

Vacuum for the park Mosuc is a street and park vacuum cleaner which its designers, Hollowell Engineering, Dearborn, Michigan, like to claim has more suck than most[.]

[D]rop the head for less suck or raise it for more. A plow should not have too much suck or it will run on its nose in hard land and put unnecessary weight.

2017, Oliver B. Zimmerman, Internal Combustion Engines and Tractors, page 153:

(uncountable) The ability to suck; suction.

Marvelous stories were told of "the suck" in early times. It was said that the water was so compressed that it would bear an ax.

1879, Edward Deering Mansfield, Personal Memories, Social, Political, and Literary, page 302:

A part of a river towards which strong currents converge making navigation difficult.

“Why're you bothering to take her anywhere? I can't stand traveling with her. You're such a suck,” her sister said. Waved her smoke. “No fucking way I'm going.”

1999, Hiromi Goto, “Drift”, in Ms., volume 9, number 3, pages 82–6:

I used to think she was such a suck! She'd cry when I took to the ice, whether I skated well or badly. She'd cry when I left the house.

2008, Beth Hitchcock, “Parenting Pair”, in Today's Parent, volume 25, number 5, page 64:

(Canada) A weak, self-pitying person; a person who refuses to go along with others, especially out of spite; a crybaby or sore loser.

You are McGlade's suck.

1916, James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Macmillan Press, page 23:

(slang, dated) A short drink, especially a dram of spirits.

Nate exhaled a long, slow breath. What the hell was he thinking? He couldn't cruise the steam room looking for married men looking for a quick suck. He needed to shoot his load, but was he really that desperate?

2012, Alex Carreras, Cruising with Destiny, page 12:

You don't have to call me on for everything, ok? I'm aware of my suck.

2019, Justin Blackburn, The Bisexual Christian Suburban Failure Enlightening Bipolar Blues, page 34:

(slang, uncountable, sometimes considered vulgar) Badness or mediocrity.

en-noun

suck (countable and uncountable, plural sucks)

مَصَّة

From Middle English souken, suken, from Old English sūcan (“to suck”), from Proto-West Germanic *sūkan, from Proto-Germanic *sūkaną (“to suck, suckle”), from Proto-Indo-European *sewg-, *sewk- (“to suck”). Cognate with Scots souke (“to suck”), obsolete Dutch zuiken (“to suck”), Limburgish zuken, zoeken (“to suck”). Akin also to Old English sūgan (“to suck”), West Frisian sûge, sûge (“to suck”), Dutch zuigen (“to suck”), German saugen (“to suck”), Swedish suga (“to suck”), Icelandic sjúga (“to suck”), Latin sūgō (“suck”), Welsh sugno (“suck”). Related to soak.


suck

(transitive) To use the mouth and lips to pull in (a liquid, especially milk from the breast).

(intransitive) To perform such an action; to feed from a breast or teat.

(transitive) To put the mouth or lips to (a breast, a mother etc.) to draw in milk.

That she may sucke their life, and drinke their blood, / With which she from her childhood had bene fed.

1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.i:

(transitive) To extract, draw in (a substance) from or out of something.

And ſince we all haue ſuckt on[e] wholſome aire, / And with the ſame proportion of Elements, / Reſolue, I hope we are reſembled, / Uowing our loues to equall death and life, […]

c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene vi:

(transitive, archaic) To inhale (air), to draw (breath).

(transitive) To work the lips and tongue on (an object) to extract moisture or nourishment; to absorb (something) in the mouth.

Cigarette smoke was sucked out through the cracks in the glass of the glazed panes overhead the side street and the parking lot.

1976 August 14, Matthew Wolfe, “Cruising a Tea Room or; Does Gertrude Stein Really Drink Coffee”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 7, page 15:

(transitive) To pull (something) in a given direction, especially without direct contact.

1970-1975, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
the way he arched his back and spread his legs when he wanted me to suck him.

(transitive, slang, vulgar) To perform fellatio.

Schumacher recalls Bucher had also written 'Communism sucks' on the underside of his table

1969 November 2, Sid Moody with Jules Loh and Richard Meyer, “The USS Pueblo: 22: Panmunjom: General Pak Had One Last Trump”, in Charlotte Observer, page H-25:

it has a few very high points . . . but as a novel, it sucks

1970 January 8, Hunter S. Thompson, “[letter to Steve Geller]”, in Fear and Loathing in America, New York: Simon & Schuster, published 2000, →ISBN, page 251:

Garfield: Well, another year is almost under the belt / And I've had 313 pretty good days / The Mondays sucked.

1990 December 31, Jim Davis, Garfield Takes Up Space (Garfield) (comic):

(chiefly Canada, US, intransitive, stative, colloquial, sometimes vulgar) To be inferior or objectionable: a general term of disparagement, sometimes used with at to indicate a particular area of deficiency.

en-verb

suck (third-person singular simple present sucks, present participle sucking, simple past and past participle sucked)

sucks (present singular third-person)
sucking (participle present)
sucked (participle past)
sucked (past)

don't try to teach grandma how to suck eggs

→⇒ Vietnamese: sục

sipsip

(transitive) to use the mouth to pull in (liquid, etc)

imeä

(intransitive) to perform such an action; to feed from a breast or teat

бозая

(transitive) to put the mouth or lips to (a breast, a mother) to draw in milk

засмуквам

to extract, draw in (a substance) from or out of something

смуча

to work the lips and tongue on (an object) to extract moisture or nourishment; to absorb (something) in the mouth

imeä

to pull (something) in a given direction, especially without direct contact

духам

colloquial: term of general disparagement


suck

sigh; a deep and prolonged audible inspiration or respiration

Han har inte en suck

(colloquial, usually in negated expressions) chance

suck (indefinite nominative singular)
sucks (genitive indefinite singular)
sucken (definite nominative singular)
suckens (definite genitive singular)
suckar (indefinite nominative plural)
suckars (genitive indefinite plural)
suckarna (definite nominative plural)
suckarnas (definite genitive plural)

From Old Swedish sukker, from the root of the verb sucka (“to let out a sigh”).


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