suck

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[edit] English

[edit] Etymology

Old English sūcan

[edit] Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ʌk

[edit] Verb

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

1. To use the mouth to pull in liquid substances for ingestion or to perform a similar act on solid material without ingestion.
2. To draw into, by any means, with an attractive force, usually without direct contact. Used to describe the effect of negative pressure allowing atmospheric pressure to push air in, as occurs with breathing, drinking and vacuum cleaning.
3. (colloquial) To be inferior or objectionable: a general term of disparagement, sometimes used with at to indicate a particular area of deficiency.

   You're great at baseball, but you suck at golf.

   This situation sucks.

4. To perform fellatio; with off means to perform fellatio culminating in ejaculation.

[edit] Synonyms

• (3, 4 above) To blow

[edit] Antonyms

• (1, 2 above) To blow
• (to be poor at) To rock, to rule

[edit] Derived terms

• sucker
• suck up

[edit] Related terms

• suckle

[edit] Translations

[edit] Noun

suck

1. a sycophant

[edit] Quotations

• 1916: "You are McGlade's suck." - James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Macmillan Press Ltd, paperback, 23)

• 1970: "...(The Rum Diary) has a few very high points...but as a novel, it sucks." - Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in America (Simon and Schuster, hardcover, pg. 251)

[edit] Swedish

[edit] Noun

suck c.

1. sigh; a deep and prolonged audible inspiration or respiration