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Suck   /sək/   Listen
Suck

verb
(past & past part. sucked; pres. part. sucking)
1.
Draw into the mouth by creating a practical vacuum in the mouth.  "Suck on a straw" , "The baby sucked on the mother's breast"
2.
Draw something in by or as if by a vacuum.
3.
Attract by using an inexorable force, inducement, etc..  Synonym: suck in.
4.
Be inadequate or objectionable.
5.
Provide sexual gratification through oral stimulation.  Synonyms: blow, fellate, go down on.
6.
Take in, also metaphorically.  Synonyms: absorb, draw, imbibe, soak up, sop up, suck up, take in, take up.  "She drew strength from the minister's words"
7.
Give suck to.  Synonyms: breastfeed, give suck, lactate, nurse, suckle, wet-nurse.  "You cannot nurse your baby in public in some places"
noun
1.
The act of sucking.  Synonyms: sucking, suction.



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"Suck" Quotes from Famous Books



... damsel it was pluck'd, Beneath the golden day there; By swain 'twas then in London suck'd— Who flung the peel ...
— The Book of Humorous Verse • Various
... feline species the number and variety in Ceylon is inferior to that of India. The Palm-cat[1] lurks by day among the fronds of the coco-nut trees, and by night makes destructive forays on the fowls of the villagers; and, in order to suck the blood of its victim, inflicts a wound so small as to be almost imperceptible. The glossy genette[2], the "Civet" of Europeans, is common in the northern province, where the Tamils confine it in cages for the sake of its musk, which they collect from the wooden bars on which it rubs ...
— Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and • James Emerson Tennent
... allowed the city to suck him in, drifted through the flow of the streets, stood still on the squares, rested on the stairs of stone by the river. When the evening came, he made friends with barber's assistant, whom he had ...
— Siddhartha • Herman Hesse
... you will have to do," said he, "is to lay a two-inch pipe from your city to the Gulf of Mexico. Then if you fellows can suck as hard as you can blow you will have it a seaport inside ...
— More Toasts • Marion Dix Mosher
... by hunger and primitive desire, and harried by the "insolence of office"; an old man denied the little luxuries of his senile greed; an old maid torn and rent in the flesh that is barren and the breasts that never gave suck; these are the natural subjects of his genius—the sort of "copy" that one certainly need not leave one's "home ...
— Suspended Judgments - Essays on Books and Sensations • John Cowper Powys


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