Etymology : Middle English suken, from Old English sucan; akin to Old High German sugan to suck, Latin sugere
Pronunciation : s&k
Function : verb
Date : before 12th century
1. act of sucking; sound produced by sucking; something that is is sucked. draw into the mouth using the lips and tongue; draw in, pull in; place in the mouth and draw upon; cause to dissolve in the mouth; be repulsive or disgusting (Slang); behave obsequiously (Slang). an immature person, wimp Chad, that suck! He tells his mother everything we say. suck\suck\ , v. t. [imp. & p. p. sucked ; p. pr. & vb. n. sucking.] [oe. suken, souken, as. s can, s gan; akin to d. zuigen, g. saugen, ohg. s gan, icel. s ga, sj ga, sw. suga, dan. suge, l. sugere. cf. honeysuckle, soak, succulent, suction.].
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. to draw or drain. old ocean, sucked through the porous globe.
6. to draw in, as a whirlpool; to swallow up. as waters are by whirlpools sucked and drawn.
7. 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.
8. To draw liquid from by the action of the mouth; as, to suck an orange; specifically, to draw milk from with the mouth; as, the young of an animal sucks the mother, or dam; an infant sucks the breast.
9. 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.
10. To draw or drain.
11. To draw in, as a whirlpool; to swallow up.
12. To draw, or attempt to draw, something by suction, as with the mouth, or through a tube.
13. To draw milk from the breast or udder; as, a child, or the young of an animal, is first nourished by sucking.
14. To draw in; to imbibe; to partake.
15. The act of drawing with the mouth.
16. That which is drawn into the mouth by sucking; specifically, mikl drawn from the breast.
17. A small draught.
18. Juice; succulence. 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" draw something in by or as if by a vacuum; "Mud was sucking at her feet" attract by using an inexorable force, inducement, etc.; "The current boom in the economy sucked many workers in from abroad".
19. 1. If you suck something, you hold it in your mouth and pull at it with the muscles in your cheeks and tongue, for example in order to get liquid out of it. They waited in silence and sucked their sweets He sucked on his cigarette Doran was clutching the bottle with both hands and sucking intently.
20. If something sucks a liquid, gas, or object in a particular direction, it draws it there with a powerful force. The pollution-control team is at the scene and is due to start sucking up oil any time now the airline pilot who was almost sucked from the cockpit of his plane when a window shattered.
21. If you are sucked into a bad situation, you are unable to prevent yourself from becoming involved in it. the extent to which they have been sucked into the cycle of violence.
22. feelings If someone says that something sucks, they are indicating that they think it is very bad. The system sucks.
23. to suck someone dry: see:
dry. an act of sucking.
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