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1. 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"
    
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. [informal] Be inadequate or objectionable
   "this sucks!";
   - blow [informal]
    
5. [vulgar] Provide sexual gratification through oral stimulation
   - fellate, go down on
    
6. Take in, also metaphorically
   "The sponge sucks water well";
   - absorb, imbibe, soak up, sop up, suck up, draw, take in, take up
    
7. (of a woman) produce breast milk for a baby to drink
   - breastfeed, suckle, nurse, wet-nurse, lactate, give suck [archaic]

1. The act of sucking
   - suction

Derived forms: sucked, sucks, sucking

See also: sop up

Type of: absorb, be, consumption, draw, drink, excite, feed, give, imbibe, ingestion, intake, stimulate, stir, take in, take out, uptake

Encyclopedia: Suck, squeeze, bang, blow