Definitions for suck
sʌksuck

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. sucking, suck, suctionverb

   the act of sucking

2. suckverb

   draw into the mouth by creating a practical vacuum in the mouth

   "suck the poison from the place where the snake bit"; "suck on a straw"; "the baby sucked on the mother's breast"

3. suckverb

   draw something in by or as if by a vacuum

   "Mud was sucking at her feet"

4. suck, suck inverb

   attract by using an inexorable force, inducement, etc.

   "The current boom in the economy sucked many workers in from abroad"

5. suckverb

   be inadequate or objectionable

   "this sucks!"

6. fellate, suck, blow, go down onverb

   provide sexual gratification through oral stimulation

7. absorb, suck, imbibe, soak up, sop up, suck up, draw, take in, take upverb

   take in, also metaphorically

   "The sponge absorbs water well"; "She drew strength from the minister's words"

8. breastfeed, suckle, suck, nurse, wet-nurse, lactate, give suckverb

   give suck to

   "The wetnurse suckled the infant"; "You cannot nurse your baby in public in some places"

WiktionaryRate this definition:4.3 / 3 votes

1. sucknoun

   A weak, self-pitying person; a person who won't go along, especially out of spite; a crybaby or sore loser.

2. sucknoun

   A sycophant, especially a child.

3. suckverb

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

4. suckverb

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

5. suckverb

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

6. suckverb

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

7. suckverb

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

8. suckverb

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

9. suckverb

   To perform fellatio.

10. suckverb

    To be inferior or objectionable: a general term of disparagement, sometimes used with at to indicate a particular area of deficiency.

11. Etymology: souken, from sucan, from sūganan, from seug-. Akin to sugan "to suck", sugan "to suck" (saugen), socian "to cause to suck up, soak". More at soak.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Sucknoun

   Etymology: from the verb.

   1. The act of sucking.

   I hoped, from the descent of the quick-silver in the tube, upon the first suck, that I should be able to give a nearer guess at the proportion of force betwixt the pressure of the air and the gravity of quick-silver. Boyle.

   2. Milk given by females.

   They draw with their suck the disposition of their nurses. Edmund Spenser.

   I have given suck and know
   How tender ’tis to love the babe that milks me. William Shakespeare.

   Those first unpolish’d matrons
   Gave suck to infants of gigantick mold. Dryden.

   It would be inconvenient for birds to give suck. John Ray.

2. To SUCKverb

   Etymology: sucan , Saxon; sugo, suctum, Latin; succer, French.

   1. To draw by making a rarefaction of the air.2. To draw in with the mouth.

   The cup of astonishment thou shalt drink, and suck it out. Ezek. xxiii. 34.

   We’ll hand in hand to the dark mansions go,
   Where, sucking in each other’s latest breath,
   We may transfuse our souls. Dryden.

   Still she drew
   The sweets from ev’ry flow’r, and suck’d the dew. Dryden.

   Transfix’d as o’er Castalia’s streams he hung,
   He suck’d new poisons with his triple tongue. Alexander Pope, Statius.

   3. To draw the teat of a female.

   Desire, the more he suck’d, more sought the breast,
   Like dropsy folk still drink to be a-thirst. Philip Sidney.

   A bitch will nurse young foxes in place of her puppies, if you can get them once to suck her so long that her milk may go through them. John Locke.

   Did a child suck every day a new nurse, it would be no more affrighted with the change of faces at six months old than at sixty. John Locke.

   4. To draw with the milk.

   Thy valiantness was mine, thou suck’dst it from me;
   But own thy pride thyself. William Shakespeare, Coriolanus.

   5. To empty by sucking.

   A fox lay with whole swarms of flies sucking and galling of him. Roger L'Estrange.

   Bees on tops of lilies feed,
   And creep within their bells to suck the balmy seed. Dryden.

   6. To draw or drain.

   I can suck melancholy out of a song, as a weazel sucks eggs. William Shakespeare.

   Pumping hath tir’d our men;
   Seas into seas thrown, we suck in again. John Donne.

   A cubical vessel of brass is filled an inch and a half in half an hour; but because it sucks up nothing as the earth doth, take an inch for half an hour’s rain. Burnet.

   Old ocean, suck’d through the porous globe,
   Had long ere now forsook his horrid bed. James Thomson.

3. To Suckverb

   1. To draw by rarefying the air.

   Continual repairs, the least defects in sucking pumps are constantly requiring. John Mortimer, Husbandry.

   2. To draw the breast.

   Such as are nourished with milk find the paps, and suck at them; whereas none of those that are not designed for that nourishment ever offer to suck. John Ray, on the Creation.

   I would
   Pluck the young sucking cubs from the she-bear,
   To win thee, lady. William Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice.

   Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck? Job iii. 12.

   A nursing father beareth with the sucking child. Numb. xi.

   3. To draw; imbibe.

   The crown had sucked too hard, and now being full, was like to draw less. Francis Bacon, Henry VIII.

   All the under passions,
   As waters are by whirl-pools suck’d and drawn,
   Were quite devoured in the vast gulph of empire. Dryden.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. suck

   Suck: The First European Sex Paper was an underground pornographic magazine that celebrated free love and queer sexuality. Founded in London in 1969, its collaborators included Jim Haynes, William Levy, Heathcote Williams, Germaine Greer, and Jean Shrimpton. The United Kingdom banned the publication prior to its first issue.

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1. suck

   Suck is a verb that generally refers to the action of creating a vacuum with one's mouth to draw something in, such as liquid from a straw. It can also mean to draw or pull something in a particular direction. The term can be used metaphorically to imply absorbing or soaking up information or experiences, or in informal language to mean 'perform badly' or 'be of poor quality'.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Suckverb

   to draw, as a liquid, by the action of the mouth and tongue, which tends to produce a vacuum, and causes the liquid to rush in by atmospheric pressure; to draw, or apply force to, by exhausting the air

2. Suckverb

   to draw liquid from by the action of the mouth; as, to suck an orange; specifically, to draw milk from (the mother, the breast, etc.) with the mouth; as, the young of an animal sucks the mother, or dam; an infant sucks the breast

3. Suckverb

   to draw in, or imbibe, by any process resembles sucking; to inhale; to absorb; as, to suck in air; the roots of plants suck water from the ground

4. Suckverb

   to draw or drain

5. Suckverb

   to draw in, as a whirlpool; to swallow up

6. Suckverb

   to draw, or attempt to draw, something by suction, as with the mouth, or through a tube

7. Suckverb

   to draw milk from the breast or udder; as, a child, or the young of an animal, is first nourished by sucking

8. Suckverb

   to draw in; to imbibe; to partake

9. Sucknoun

   the act of drawing with the mouth

10. Sucknoun

    that which is drawn into the mouth by sucking; specifically, mikl drawn from the breast

11. Sucknoun

    a small draught

12. Sucknoun

    juice; succulence

13. Etymology: [OE. suken, souken, AS. scan, sgan; akin to D. zuigen, G. saugen, OHG. sgan, Icel. sga, sjga, Sw. suga, Dan. suge, L. sugere. Cf. Honeysuckle, Soak, Succulent, Suction.]

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Suck

   suk, v.t. to draw in with the mouth: to draw milk from with the mouth: to imbibe: to drain.—v.i. to draw with the mouth: to draw the breast: to draw in.—n. act of sucking: milk drawn from the breast: (slang) a short drink, esp. a dram of spirits.—n. Suck′er, one who, or that which, sucks, a sucking-pig: one of various kinds of fish: the organ by which an animal adheres to other bodies: the piston of a suction-pump: a shoot rising from a subterranean stem: a leather disc to the middle of which a string is attached, used by children as a toy: a parasite, toady, sponge: a hard drinker: (U.S.) a native of Illinois.—v.t. to strip off suckers from: to provide with suckers.—n. Suck′et, a sugar-plum.—adj. Suck′ing, still nourished by milk: young and inexperienced.—ns. Suck′ing-bot′tle, a bottle of milk used for infants as a substitute for the breast; Suck′ing-fish, a name sometimes given to the Remora or Echineis, which has a dorsal sucker, and to other fishes which have a sucker formed by the union of the ventral fins, as the Lumpsucker.—Suck in, to draw in, imbibe, absorb (n. a fraud); Suck out, to draw out with the mouth; Suck the monkey (see Monkey); Suck up, to draw up into the mouth. [A.S. súcan, súgan; Ger. saugen.]

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1. SUCK

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British National Corpus

1. Verbs Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'suck' in Verbs Frequency: #845

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Anagrams for suck »

1. cusk

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1. Alex

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   British

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   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

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How to say suck in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of suck in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of suck in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of suck in a Sentence

1. Mouth organist Larry Adler:

   Even Bach comes down to the basic suck, blow, suck, suck, blow.

2. Lakshheish M Patel:

   Retail traders, adopt only 1 strategy across world and that is SELL, SELL SELL and keep SELLing shares if you do not want further stock market to fall More you invest, More the companies will suck your money by keeping the stock market drawning

3. Peter Fuhrman:

   If you're the nervous investors that took Focus Media private for a couple of billion in the U.S., if you're a delivery company and you need money to buy airplanes, you can't wait for two, three or five years, you gotta suck it up and pay the money.

4. Ryan Helbach:

   There are no moving parts in the flow path, so that means there are no compressor blades to suck in the air, so we need something to get us up to above Mach 4 in order to get the compression into the engine.

5. Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy:

   It must suck to be that dumb

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=suck
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Suck
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=suck
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suck
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/suck
7. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=suck
8. ^ Usage in printed sources
   https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=suck