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.