suckverb
uk/sʌk/us/sʌk/suck verb (PULL IN)
C2 [ I or T ] to pull in liquid or air through your mouth without using your teeth, or to move the tongue and muscles of the mouth around something inside your mouth, often in order to dissolve it:
She was sitting on the grass sucking lemonade through a straw.
I sucked my thumb until I was seven.
I tried sucking (on) a mint to stop myself coughing.
[ T + adv/prep ] Something that sucks a liquid or an object in a particular direction pulls it with great force:
The waves came crashing over my head and I could feel myself being sucked under by the currents.
figurative Continued rapid growth in consumer spending will suck in (= encourage) more imports.
More examples
- She bought a packet of sweets to suck on the journey.
- Stop sucking your thumb!
- She was very noisily sucking sweets in the back of the car.
- People often suck a peppermint as a breath freshener.
- I was sucked into a vortex of despair.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Biting, chewing & swallowing
- bite
- champ
- chew
- chomp
- crunch
- dunk
- gnaw
- lick
- masticate
- mastication
- munch
- nibble
- peck
- peck at sth
- rumination
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Pulling
suck verb (BE BAD)
[ I ] mainly US slang If someone or something sucks, that person or thing is bad or unpleasant:
Man, this job sucks!
While my brother was sick, I had to do all of his chores and it sucked.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Bore and bored
- (stuck) in a rut idiom
- ass
- banal
- be (stuck) in a groove idiom
- be watching the clock idiom
- bore the ass off sb idiom
- bored
- bored stiff idiom
- brain-dead
- clock
- get itchy feet idiom
- languid
- listless
- outgrow
- pall
- restless
- tire
- uninterested
- weary
- you should get out more idiom
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Idiom(s)
suck sb/sth dry
sucking diesel
suck it and see
Phrasal verb(s)
suck sth in
suck sb/sth in/suck sb/sth into sth
suck sb off
suck up to sb
sucknoun [ C usually singular ]
uk/sʌk/us/sʌk/the action of sucking something:
Can I have a suck of your lollipop, please?
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Biting, chewing & swallowing
- bite
- champ
- chew
- chomp
- crunch
- dunk
- gnaw
- lick
- masticate
- mastication
- munch
- nibble
- peck
- peck at sth
- rumination