suck

SUCK, verb transitive [Latin sugo.] 1. To draw with the mouth; to draw out, as a liquid from a cask, or milk from the breast; to draw into the mouth. To suck is to exhaust the air of the mouth or of a tube; the fluid then rushes into the mouth or tube by means of the pressure of the surrounding air. 2. To draw milk from with the mouth; as, the young of an animal sucks the mother or dam, or the breast. 3. To draw into the mouth; to imbibe; as, to suck in air; to suck the juice of plants. 4. To draw or drain. Old ocean suck'd through the porous globe. 5. To draw in, as a whirlpool; to absorb. 6. To inhale. To suck in, to draw into the mouth; to imbibe; to absorb. To suck out, to draw out with the mouth; to empty by suction. To suck up, to draw into the mouth. SUCK, verb intransitive To draw by exhausting the air, as with the mouth, or with a tube. 1. To draw the breast; as, a child, or the young of any animal, is first nourished by sucking. 2. To draw in; to imbibe. SUCK, noun The act of drawing with the mouth. 1. Milk drawn from the breast by the mouth.