suck
/sʌk/ verb B2- To use the mouth and lips to pull in (a liquid, especially milk from the breast). · The baby sucked (milk) on her bottle.
- To perform such an action; to feed from a breast or teat.
- To put the mouth or lips to (a breast, a parent etc.) to draw in milk.
- To extract, draw in (a substance) from or out of something.
- To work the lips and tongue on (an object) to extract moisture or nourishment; to absorb (something) in the mouth.
- To pull (something) in a given direction, especially without direct contact.
- To perform fellatio.
- To be inferior or objectionable: a general term of disparagement, sometimes used with at to indicate a particular area of deficiency.
He/she/it sucks · Past sucked · Past participle sucked · -ing form sucking
Verb forms
- Base form
- suck
- He/she/it
- sucks
- Past
- sucked
- Past participle
- sucked
- -ing form
- sucking
Phrasal verbs and expressions
- suck down To drink (or, more rarely, eat) all of something quickly.
- suck in To draw inward using suction. Used other than figurativel...
- suck into To cause someone to become slowly more and more involved ...
- suck off To perform oral sex on.
- suck out Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see suck, ...
- suck up To absorb (fluid).
From the library
A swarm of hungry blood-sucking flies settled upon him.
But you, an ill-favoured and contemptible insect who delights in sucking human blood, I wish that I could have killed you even if I had incurred a heavier penalty.”
You’re a smoker yourself, if I remember right, and you’ll guess what it is to be sitting for two days with tobacco in your pocket and afraid that the smell will give you away.” He leaned against the mantelpiece and sucked at the cigar which Holmes had handed him.
And I know another case where an adopted boy used to suck the eggs--they couldn’t break him of it.
Other matches
- suck An instance of drawing something into one's lun... B1
- suck down To drink
- suck in To draw inward using suction. Used other than f...
- suck into To cause someone to become slowly more and more...
- suck off To perform oral sex on.
- suck out Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: ...
- suck up To absorb
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