1. Draw liquid, air, or other substance into the mouth by using muscles to create inward pressure
   "the baby sucked on the mother's breast"; "suck the poison from the place where the snake bit"; "suck on a straw"
    
2. Draw something in by or as if by a vacuum
   "Mud was sucking at her feet"
    
3. Attract by using an inexorable force, inducement, etc.
   "The current boom in the economy sucked many workers in from abroad";
   - suck in
    
4. Take in, also metaphorically
   "The sponge sucks water well";
   - absorb, imbibe, soak up, sop up, suck up, draw, take in, take up
    
5. [informal] Be inadequate or objectionable
   "this sucks!";
   - blow [informal], stink [informal]
    
6. [vulgar] Provide sexual gratification through oral stimulation
   - fellate

1. The act of sucking
   "The baby's suck on the bottle was strong";
   - suction

Derived forms: sucked, sucks, sucking

See also: pull in, sop up, suck in

Type of: absorb, act, be, consumption, draw, drink, excite, exist, imbibe, ingestion, intake, move, stimulate, stir, take in, take out, uptake

Encyclopedia: Suck, squeeze, bang, blow