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Sucking

Suck \Suck\ (s[u^]k), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sucked (s[u^]kt); p. pr. & vb. n. Sucking.] [OE. suken, souken, AS. s[=u]can, s[=u]gan; akin to D. zuigen, G. saugen, OHG. s[=u]gan, Icel. s[=u]ga, sj[=u]ga, Sw. suga, Dan. suge, L. sugere. Cf. Honeysuckle, Soak, Succulent, Suction.]

  1. To draw, as a liquid, by the action of the mouth and tongue, which tends to produce a vacuum, and causes the liquid to rush in by atmospheric pressure; to draw, or apply force to, by exhausting the air.

  2. To draw liquid from by the action of the mouth; as, to suck an orange; specifically, to draw milk from (the mother, the breast, etc.) with the mouth; as, the young of an animal sucks the mother, or dam; an infant sucks the breast.

  3. To draw in, or imbibe, by any process resembles sucking; to inhale; to absorb; as, to suck in air; the roots of plants suck water from the ground.

  4. To draw or drain.

    Old ocean, sucked through the porous globe.
    --Thomson.

  5. To draw in, as a whirlpool; to swallow up.

    As waters are by whirlpools sucked and drawn.
    --Dryden.

    To suck in, to draw into the mouth; to imbibe; to absorb.

    To suck out, to draw out with the mouth; to empty by suction.

    To suck up, to draw into the mouth; to draw up by suction or absorption.

Sucking

Sucking \Suck"ing\, a. Drawing milk from the mother or dam; hence, colloquially, young, inexperienced, as, a sucking infant; a sucking calf.

I suppose you are a young barrister, sucking lawyer, or that sort of thing.
--Thackeray.

Sucking bottle, a feeding bottle. See under Bottle.

Sucking fish (Zo["o]l.), the remora. See Remora.
--Baird.

Sucking pump, a suction pump. See under Suction.

Sucking stomach (Zo["o]l.), the muscular first stomach of certain insects and other invertebrates which suck liquid food.

Wiktionary
sucking

n. 1 An act of sucking. 2 A sound or motion that sucks. vb. (present participle of suck English)

WordNet
sucking

n. the act of sucking [syn: suck, suction]

Wikipedia

Usage examples of "sucking".

The multitude is the real productive force of our social world, whereas Empire is a mere apparatus of capture that lives only off the vitality of the multitude-as Marx would say, a vampire regime of accumulated dead labor that survives only by sucking off the blood of the living.

Men died in the thousands, gasping, each breath more improbable than the last, at furnace air, sucking final moments of anguished, dreamlike life through throats of charred wood.

This may be done by tightly applying bandages above the wound and scarifying or sucking the parts.

The Bringer gasped, sucking air through its wound for a moment, and died.

At last he sat down on the ledge of the rude fountain, with his face towards the Gippies and the Arabs squatted on the ground, some playing mankalah, others sucking dry lime leaves, many smoking apathetically.

Sucking candy and tuckered out by her struggles with her seat, Marga fell asleep soon after the performance began, but had to be awakened after each act to clap, which she did with enthusiasm.

Miss Jenkyns and Miss Matty used to rise up, possess themselves each of an orange in silence, and withdraw to the privacy of their own rooms to indulge in sucking oranges.

The soft sweet slushings and the suckings and the nibblings of her dainty lips, the flickings of her ardent little pink tongue over my ardent, puckering cocktip and along the velvety pink and throbbing crannies of the meatus, had driven me to an ungovernable frenzy.

He cringed visibly, sucking his breath through gritted teeth as Mongo clapped him firmly on the shoulder, halting him in mid-stride.

A pair of furious Hinds montane vipers struck out repeatedly, shooting venom into two of the men, who wailed and reeled back, sucking at the fang marks to pull the poison from their systems.

So guided tours of the privileged few to examine the Jami-san cleansing room became one of the most sought-after sights of gai-jin Yokohama, the chattering musume like so many exotic birds, bowing and sucking in their breaths and pulling the chain to gasps of wonder and applause.

The sound of her sticky pussy sucking him back in with every outstroke reached his ears.

Her face was flushed, her eyes glazed and her lips were slightly puffy from sucking so hard, giving her a slightly pouty look.

His long, prehensile toes were locked in the sucking goo, but he showed no sign of panic.

The black blood, winking in the starlight, seeped down into the clinkers between the ties with a prolonged sucking murmur.