"suck cheese" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: sucks cheese [present, singular, third-person], sucking cheese [participle, present], sucked cheese [participle, past], sucked cheese [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} suck cheese (third-person singular simple present sucks cheese, present participle sucking cheese, simple past and past participle sucked cheese)
  1. (stative, euphemistic, slang) To be of terrible quality. Tags: euphemistic, slang, stative Synonyms: suck balls Translations (to be of terrible quality): olla surkea (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-suck_cheese-en-verb-yj9YKVrZ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English euphemisms

Inflected forms

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