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Definition of "sucking" []

  • Not yet weaned. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "sucking" in a sentence
  • "I rub it on my face and slide it between my fingers whist sucking my tongue which my family call ’sucking my bottle’!"
  • "There's actually what I call a sucking sound of people coming into the country and the insurgents who have political and religious motivations."
  • "We’ve been too well-off for too long, so unless Obama comes up with a memory-killing drug to put in the water supply, he’ll be lucky if he’s allowed to sit out the rest of his term sucking his thumb in the Oval Office, while the governors and legislators like Rep. Ryan take the lead."