An instance of drawing something into one's mouth by inhaling.
Used in a Sentence
sucks
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for sucks.
Editorial note
Minuses: the parking sucks, the traffic sucks, the myriad one-way streets suck.
Examples17
Definitions4
Parts of speech1
Quick take
An instance of drawing something into one's mouth by inhaling.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of sucks gathered in one view.
An indrawing of gas or liquid caused by suction.
A sycophant, especially a child.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for sucks.
noun
An instance of drawing something into one's mouth by inhaling.
noun
An indrawing of gas or liquid caused by suction.
noun
A sycophant, especially a child.
noun
A part of a river towards which strong currents converge making navigation difficult.
Example sentences
Minuses: the parking sucks, the traffic sucks, the myriad one-way streets suck.
Most of our code sucks, just really, honestly sucks.
If you end up in the wrong group and you're not able to move, it probably sucks.
Life sucks enough and it takes a good long while to learn to dance above the abyss.
To try out a web site, you click it, if it sucks, no harm no foul.
There is a ton of work to do, and a lot of it downright sucks.
Everyone loves to root for 'their' home sports team, and that other rival sports team sucks a lot, their bad guys.
Culture is set from the top and it sounds like the company culture sucks.
Going back to the original article, maybe it is centralisation that sucks.
Also Acer support sucks and traveller's warranty is not international warranty.
Because Windows sucks, since it doesn't have anything like systemd.
Vim kind of sucks for all those use cases.
Quote examples
I can't imagine anyone testing it out for more than 5 minutes before thinking "Yep, this clearly sucks".
Also, "sucks to be all these people who would benefit from interacting with me but where I may stop interacting".
You mean "sucks to be any normal person today." The ramifications of the destruction of anonymity and privacy affect everyone whether or not we understand enough right now to get this.
Proper noun examples
Sucks to be on a trip without internet access but that could have happened with any customer service payment error.
Sucks to be the 1-in-3 but fuck it, let's go shopping.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use sucks in a sentence?
Minuses: the parking sucks, the traffic sucks, the myriad one-way streets suck.
What does sucks mean?
An instance of drawing something into one's mouth by inhaling.
What part of speech is sucks?
sucks is commonly used as noun.