Definition of "suck up" []

• To absorb fluid (verb)
• To adulate or flatter somebody excessively, generally to obtain some personal benefit or favour. (verb)

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• "Andie Walsh—strong enough to spurn the advances of that smarmy and evil but oh-so-popular James Spader—would never have stooped to suck up to Victoria Gould, or even Ali Gertz."
• "Juliet was inhaling her lasagna like one of those superpowerful vacuums you see on TV, the ones that can suck up nails."
• "All those hoops I had jumped through for himand now, next semester, there was going to be some new headmaster to suck up to."