suck

plural sucks

1. countableuncountableAn instance of drawing something into one's lungs by inhaling or into one's mouth by suction.

   Bammer agreed “Probably a good idea,” he agreed with a quick suck on his straw, “won't stop you from picking up any of these chicks, though.”

   2001, D. Martin Doney, Prayer Capsule: A Book of Honesty, page 261

2. uncountableMilk drawn from the breast.

   The infant took suck in an instant, pulling strongly.

   2010, Barbara Tieken, Bull Vaulter: Alena of the Isle of Green, page 202

3. countableuncountableAn indrawing of gas or liquid caused by suction.

   On a proper workbench this can often be achieved between the end vice and a dog, though more sophisticated products use either the suck of a vacuum cleaner or just friction.

   2005, Nick Gibbs, Ultimate Woodworking Course, page 136

4. uncountableThe ability to suck; suction.

   [D]rop the head for less suck or raise it for more. A plow should not have too much suck or it will run on its nose in hard land and put unnecessary weight.

   2017, Oliver B. Zimmerman, Internal Combustion Engines and Tractors, page 153

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   Vacuum for the park Mosuc is a street and park vacuum cleaner which its designers, Hollowell Engineering, Dearborn, Michigan, like to claim has more suck than most[.]

   1972, Design, numbers 277-282, page 68

5. countableuncountableA part of a river towards which strong currents converge making navigation difficult.

   Marvelous stories were told of "the suck" in early times. It was said that the water was so compressed that it would bear an ax.

   1879, Edward Deering Mansfield, Personal Memories, Social, Political, and Literary, page 302

6. CanadacountableuncountableA weak, self-pitying person; a person who refuses to go along with others, especially out of spite; a crybaby or sore loser.

   I used to think she was such a suck! She'd cry when I took to the ice, whether I skated well or badly. She'd cry when I left the house.

   2008, Beth Hitchcock, “Parenting Pair”, in Today's Parent, volume 25, number 5, page 64

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   “Why're you bothering to take her anywhere? I can't stand traveling with her. You're such a suck,” her sister said. Waved her smoke. “No fucking way I'm going.”

   1999, Hiromi Goto, “Drift”, in Ms., volume 9, number 3, pages 82–6

   Synonyms: sook, sooky baby

7. countableuncountableA sycophant, especially a child.

   You are McGlade's suck.

   1916, James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Macmillan Press, page 23

8. countabledatedslanguncountableA short drink, especially a dram of spirits.
9. countableuncountablevulgarAn act of fellatio.

   Nate exhaled a long, slow breath. What the hell was he thinking? He couldn't cruise the steam room looking for married men looking for a quick suck. He needed to shoot his load, but was he really that desperate?

   2012, Alex Carreras, Cruising with Destiny, page 12

10. CanadaUSslanguncountablesometimes considered vulgarBadness or mediocrity.

    You don't have to call me on for everything, ok? I'm aware of my suck.

    2019, Justin Blackburn, The Bisexual Christian Suburban Failure Enlightening Bipolar Blues, page 34

present singular third person sucks · participle present sucking · participle past sucked · past sucked

1. transitiveTo use the mouth and lips to pull in (a liquid, especially milk from the breast).First known use 9th c.

   The baby sucked (milk) on her bottle.

2. intransitiveTo perform such an action; to feed from a breast or teat.First known use 11th c.
3. transitiveTo put the mouth or lips to (a breast, a parent etc.) to draw in milk.First known use 11th c.
4. transitiveTo extract, draw in (a substance) from or out of something.First known use 14th c.

   That she may sucke their life, and drinke their blood, / With which she from her childhood had bene fed.

   1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.i

   Synonyms: aspirate

5. archaictransitiveTo inhale (air), to draw (breath).

   And ſince we all haue ſuckt on[e] wholſome aire, / And with the ſame proportion of Elements, / Reſolue, I hope we are reſembled, / Uowing our loues to equall death and life, […]

   c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene vi

6. transitiveTo work the lips and tongue on (an object) to extract moisture or nourishment; to absorb (something) in the mouth.First known use 14th c.
7. transitiveTo pull (something) in a given direction, especially without direct contact.First known use 17th c.

   Cigarette smoke was sucked out through the cracks in the glass of the glazed panes overhead the side street and the parking lot.

   1976 August 14, Matthew Wolfe, “Cruising a Tea Room or; Does Gertrude Stein Really Drink Coffee”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 7, page 15

8. slangtransitivevulgarTo perform fellatio.First known use 20th c.

   the way he arched his back and spread his legs when he wanted me to suck him.

   1973 January 15, Lou Sullivan, Diary

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   Right now, she's content to lie underneath him and suck the warmth out of his body.

   1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, page 356

   Synonyms: give brain, give dome, give hat, give head, give neck, give noddy, go down on

9. CanadaUScolloquialintransitivesometimesstativevulgarTo be inferior or objectionable: a general term of disparagement, sometimes used with at to indicate a particular area of deficiency.First known use 20th c.

   it has a few very high points . . . but as a novel, it sucks

   1970 January 8, Hunter S. Thompson, “[letter to Steve Geller]”, in Fear and Loathing in America, New York: Simon & Schuster, published 2000, →ISBN, page 251

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   Schumacher recalls Bucher had also written “Communism sucks” on the underside of his table

   1969 November 2, Sid Moody with Jules Loh and Richard Meyer, “The USS Pueblo: 22: Panmunjom: General Pak Had One Last Trump”, in Charlotte Observer, page H-25

   […] the animation on the main character is beautiful, and the fox, although a little on the weeny side, moves superbly. The rest of the graphics suck — they might have looked worthy in 1984, but now they're quite the opposite.

   1988, "Vixen" (video game review) in Your Sinclair (issue 32, page 70)

   Garfield: Well, another year is almost under the belt / And I've had 313 pretty good days / The Mondays sucked.

   1990 December 31, Jim Davis, Garfield Takes Up Space (Garfield) (comic)