Definition of Suck in

1. Verb. Take up as if with a sponge.

Exact synonyms: Sop Up, Take In, Take Up
Generic synonyms: Consume, Have, Ingest, Take, Take In

2. Verb. Attract by using an inexorable force, inducement, etc.. "The current boom in the economy sucked many workers in from abroad"
Exact synonyms: Suck
Generic synonyms: Absorb, Take In
Derivative terms: Suck, Suction

3. Verb. Draw in as if by suction. "Suck in your cheeks and stomach"
Exact synonyms: Draw In
Generic synonyms: Core Out, Hollow, Hollow Out
Related verbs: Aspirate, Draw Out, Suck Out

Definition of Suck in

1. Verb. (idiomatic) To cause someone to become slowly more and more involved in a business or situation that is often not to that person's liking. ¹

2. Verb. (idiomatic) To contract one's abdominal muscles to make one's stomach look flatter. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Suck In

suck-boys
suck a big one
suck a lemon
suck arse
suck blood
suck donkey cock
suck face
suck hind tit
suck in (current term)
suck into
suck it
suck it up
suck lemons
suck my cock
suck out
suck rocks
suck the kumara
suck up
suckability

Literary usage of Suck in

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1891)
"as, to suck in air; a sponge sucks in water. Wise Dara's province, year by year. Like a great sponge, sucked wealth and plenty up. 4. To draw or drain. ..."

2. The Apocalypse Explained According to the Spiritual Sense: In which the by Emanuel Swedenborg (1894)
"... therefore "those that bear in the womb" and "those that give suck in ' those days," over whom there is lamentation, mean those who then receive goods ..."

3. The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments (1903)
"23 But woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck, in those days ! for there shall be great distress in the land, and wrath upon this ..."

4. Notes on the Gospels, critical and explanatory by Melancthon Williams Jacobus (1862)
"19 And 17 woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days ! 20 But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the ..."

5. A Commentary, Critical, Expository and Practical, on the Gospels of Matthew by John Jason Owen (1857)
"The eye of our Savior may have 19 And ' wo unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days ! 20 But pray ye that your flight «Ln. ..."

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