Also found in: Thesaurus, Medical, Acronyms, Idioms, Encyclopedia, Wikipedia. To draw a liquid into the mouth through or from: a baby sucking a bottle. To draw in a current in a fluid: debris that got sucked into the drain. To cause to be involved or engaged in something: teenagers who are sucked into suckatash life of crime.
Vulgar Slang To perform fellatio on. To move the tongue and lips to create suction: sucked on a straw. To draw something in by suction: The pump started to suck. To make a sound caused by suction. To be highly unpleasant or disagreeable: This job sucks. To be of poor or inferior quality: The acting in that movie sucked.
To be inept: I suck at math. The act or sound of sucking: gave the straw a suck. We really got sucked in by that offer. Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Copyright 2005, 1997, 1991 by Random House, Inc.
They waited in silence and sucked their drinks through straws. The air is sucked out by a high-powered fan. She kept sucking up to the teachers. To draw in so that extrication is difficult:catch up, embrangle, embroil, implicate, involve, mix up.