Definitions for suck up
suck up

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. 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"

2. cozy up, cotton up, shine up, play up, sidle up, suck upverb

   ingratiate oneself to; often with insincere behavior

   "She is playing up to the chairman"

3. fawn, toady, truckle, bootlick, kowtow, kotow, suck upverb

   try to gain favor by cringing or flattering

   "He is always kowtowing to his boss"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. suck upverb

   To absorb fluid

2. suck upverb

   To adulate or flatter somebody excessively, generally to obtain some personal benefit or favour.

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1. suck up

   A suck up is a person who excessively praises, flatters, or compliments someone, usually a person in authority, in order to gain favor or advantages. They often show false admiration and deference with the intent of gaining a personal benefit or advantage. This term is often used in a negative or derogatory manner.

Matched Categories

1. • Flatter
   • Ingratiate

How to pronounce suck up?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say suck up in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of suck up in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of suck up in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of suck up in a Sentence

1. Sterling Burnett:

   I thought this was really innovative, if Sterling Burnett wants to buy up these coal mines and coal companies and package coal to power plants with trees to suck up carbon emissions, and this helps save the coal companies, then Sterling Burnett has made a real positive contribution.

2. Curtis Houck:

   You should just decide whether she's someone you like and suck up to or a footsoldier for terrorists.

3. David Voepel:

   The problem is hospitals suck up more of that PPE and the bigger contracts will get the PPE, whereas assisted living communities won't get it as much.

4. Francis Cheung:

   It makes sense for them right now - given how fast the market's gone up - to actually suck up some of the liquidity with the new IPOs, they need to balance. I don't think they want to crash the market.

5. Mike Huckabee:

   The decisions are made not just frankly for what's best for Iowa -- that's not the rationale. You can't make a decision and say, 'It's good for Iowa. Gee, they're the caucus state, we better suck up to them.' We better make decisions that are good for every consumer.

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=suck up
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Suck_Up
3. ^ ChatGPT
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