Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context idiomatic English) To cause someone to become slowly more and more involved in a business or situation that is often not to that person's liking. 2 (context idiomatic English) To contract one's abdominal muscles to make one's stomach look flatter.
WordNet
v. take up as if with a sponge [syn: take in, sop up, take up]
attract by using an inexorable force, inducement, etc.; "The current boom in the economy sucked many workers in from abroad" [syn: suck]
draw in as if by suction; "suck in your cheeks and stomach" [syn: draw in]
remove as if by suction; "draw in air" [syn: aspirate, draw in]
Usage examples of "suck in".
He swung the metal pipe once, cracking it against the side of her head before she could suck in air to scream.
She reared up to kick again all in slow, painful motion struggling to suck in air to a chest that burned like fire.
She heard Peabody suck in a breath, but whether it was for Trueheart's undeniably pretty chest, or the bruising that exploded over his right shoulder and mottled the arm to the elbow, she couldn't be sure.
The single hit smashed a twelfth of the OWP's shields flat, and she heard Ling Tian suck in air.
Johnson started to suck in air, but any shout he might have given died in an agonized wheeze as his larynx shattered.
He'd gotten to his feet to greet her and had done what he could to suck in his gut.
I then stumbled to the window, opened it, and went back to the landing outside the living room to suck in some fresh air and do my best to stop shaking.
Now it lurked invisibly in space, emitting absolutely no light and doing its best to suck in anything that passed.
Earth will be especially hard on them after this 'march,' which I took pains to encourage all the same because I was pretty sure we could suck in the Vegans with it.