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Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th
suck
suck [suck sucks sucked sucking] verb, noun BrE [sʌk] NAmE [sʌk]
verb
1. transitive ~ sth (+ adv./prep.) to take liquid, air, etc. into your mouth by using the muscles of your lips
•to suck the juice from an orange
• She was noisily sucking up milk through a straw.
• He sucked the blood from a cut on his finger.
2. intransitive, transitive to keep sth in your mouth and pull on it with your lips and tongue
•~ at/on sth The baby sucked at its mother's breast.
• She sucked on a mint.
•~ sth She sucked a mint.
•Stop sucking your thumb!
3. transitive to take liquid, air, etc. out of sth
•~ sth + adv./prep. The pump sucks air out through the valve.
•~ sth + adj. Greenfly can literally suck a plant dry.
4. transitive ~ sb/sth + adv./prep. to pull sb/sth with great force in a particular direction
• The canoe was sucked down into the whirlpool.
• The mud had sucked him in up to his waist.
5. sth sucksintransitive (slang)used to say that sth is very bad
•Their new CD sucks.
compare ↑rock v. (4)
more at milk/suck sth dry at ↑dry adj., teach your grandmother to suck eggs at ↑teach
Verb forms: 
Word Origin:
Old English sūcan (verb), from an Indo-European imitative root; related to ↑soak.
Example Bank:
•He sucked at the wound on his hand.
•She sucked away on her thumb.
•The baby sucked on her bottle.
•The machine sucks up mud and stones from the bottom of the pond.
•He sucked a mint.
•He was sucking the juice from an orange.
•The baby sucked at its mother's breast.
Idioms: ↑suck it and see ▪ ↑suck it up
Derived: ↑suck somebody in ▪ ↑suck somebody into something ▪ ↑suck up
noun usually singular
an act of sucking
• The lamb staggered to its feet and took its first suck of milk.
Word Origin:
Old English sūcan (verb), from an Indo-European imitative root; related to ↑soak.
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