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) Term of general disparagement, indicating the subject or situation has no redeeming qualities. With at, indicates a particular area of deficiency.You're great at baseball, but you suck at golf.
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

[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