Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(US) notably mediocre.

2000		Maximum PC (Brisbane, CA) Sept. 68/2: Readers suggested bad products henceforth be described as [...] suckalicious, stercoraceous, biteous, mushy, wack, and wiggedy-wack.
2009		J. Muggins Summer of Marv 53: [T]he bulk of my college oeuvre [...] sucked with all the righteous, suckalicious suckiness that only college newspaper writing can, and generally does, suck with.
2017		W. Wax One Good Thing 64: ‘And by the way, have I mentioned how much it sucks to be the only sober person all the time? It’s downright suckalicious’.

(US prison) an inmate who is forced to accede to prison homosexuals’ sexual demands.

2017

T. Pluck Bad Boy Boogie [ebook] [A] crew threatened to knock Rene’s teeth out and make her their suck-dog.

an act of fellatio.

2017

T. Pluck Bad Boy Boogie [ebook] Punks inside dolled up and offered suck jobs for barter.

a homosexual fellator; also as adj.

a.1674		Rochester ‘The Argument’ Poems on Several Occasions (1680) 37: With that fair Tall-boy, and bold Suck-prick, come.
1695		J. Stubbs broadsheet libel on Mainwearing Davis in Shoemaker London Mob (2004) 243: At the Gold Turk’s-Head in Fleet-street [...] is a Suck-Prick Hoberde-Hoy, Pimp and Atheist, to be seen with a Barr Gown on, Bugger’d Davis the Pimp and Sodomite.
c.1698		‘Tom Tinker’ in Farmer Merry Songs and Ballads (1897) I 171: He calls me his Jewel, his delicate Duck, / And then he will take up my Smicket to --- / This way, that way, which way you will / With that fair Tall-boy, and bold Suck-prick, come.

see sense 6 above.

see sense 2 above.

(orig. US black) to perform the lowest act of which one is capable.

1972

(con. 1960s) in D. Goines Whoreson 111: I’d rather sleep in shit or suck a dog’s dick than let one of you funky bitches think for a minute that you got enough sense to put game on me.

see under dick n.¹

see under dick n.¹

(US) a general excl. of dismissal, aggression.

1997–2002

Alt. Eng. Dict. 🌐 suck a fatty Go suck a big fat dick!

(orig. US) a general excl. of contempt, dismissal; often ext.

c.1865		in T.P. Lowry Stories the Soldiers Wouldn’t Tell (1994) ) 46: [The trial records indicate that Captain Daly did ] ‘without any provocation whatsoever, say to Lieutenant Colonel Homer B. Sprague ... in a loud and abusive tone and manner the indecent and obscene words following, to wit—‘You suck my arse,’ and ‘you suck my cock’.
1967–8		C. Bukowski Notes of a Dirty Old Man (1973) 29: I would always say something ridiculous like, ‘well, suck my dick!’.
1977		L. Heinemann Close Quarters (1987) 165: Surtees could kiss our ass and Surtees could suck our dick and that shit-colored lifer could go piss up a rope for all we cared.
1982		S. King Different Seasons (1995) 203: ‘Suck my cock’,’ Dussander mimicked savagely in a high falsetto voice [...] ‘Suck my cock, so what, who cares, I’ll do it tomorrow, suck my cock!’.
1988		R.R. Moore ‘Dolemite’ 🎵 Ya’ll can suck my dick, nuts, and ass down to the muthafuckin bone! / Because I ain’t never comin back to San Anton’.
2000		Eminem ‘Under the Influence’ 🎵 So you can suck my dick if you don’t like my shit / Cuz I was high when I wrote this, so suck my dick.
2007		Dizzee Rascal ‘Suk My Dick’ 🎵 Suck my big black dick.
2011		G. Hayward Corruption Officer [ebk] cap. 27: ‘That bitch can suck my dick in Macy’s window at Christmas!’ an inmate screams.
2015		Guardian G2 3 July 5/1: Tel them people suck my dick.
2019		N. Walker Cherry 273: She kicked the end table. ‘Suck my dick, dude!’.

a dismissive or challenging excl.

1962		(con. 1940s) G. Mandel Wax Boom 256: Suck this, you creeps!
1978		H. Selby Jr Requiem for a Dream (1987) 41: [He] told it in a soft, vicious voice, Suck on this.
1997		(con. 1970s) G. Pelecanos King Suckerman (1998) 67: ‘Suck this,’ said Dewey.
2011		Sun. Times (Johannesburg) 6 March 4/6: [headline] Suck on that Mummar [Gadaffi].

(US) deliciously sexy.

2009		A. Munier Little Red Book of Very Dirty Words [ebook] suckalicious, adj. extremely attractive, meriting sucking; American. Pamela’s titties are suckalicious!
2010		M. Salvatore Between Boyfriends 292: I clicked on the attached photo: it was a close-up of his suckalicious, maybe-more-than-ten-inch, uncut dick.
2013		S. Hatton Dead Size [ebook] ‘Let me at those suckalicious titties,’ he growled, reaching around and cupping one of her breasts.
2015		D. Holly Heart’s Eternal Desire [ebook] You have a nice dick. Not too big, but very suckalicious’.

the vagina.

1890–1904

Farmer & Henley Sl. and Its Analogues.

see separate entries.

(Aus.) an extremely obnoxious person.

1992

K. Lette Llama Parlour 72: Rondah was what we called back home, a total suck-back (her mother should have sucked her back at birth).

a drinker.

a.1640		R. Brome Love-sick Court in Dramatic Wks II 166: What sayes old Suck-bottle?
1707		N. Ward London Terraefilius II 9: You could not have less Shames, and more Brutality, than the World may observe in such a Swill-Belly’d Suck-Bottle.
1713		W. King York Spy 12: A Jolly Suck-Bottle, who was unfortunately decoyed into the wrangling state of Matrimony.
1733		Laugh and Be Fat 24: [as cit. 1713].

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a drinker.

1611

R. Cotgrave Dict. of Fr. and Eng. Tongues n.p.: Humeux, a sucke-pinte, or swill-pot; a notable drunkard.

a drinker.

1700		‘The Art of Drinking’ in Wit’s Cabinet 140: Gabriel Giddybrains, Sir Ferdinando Fiery-face, Simon Suck-pot, Esqs.
1937–84		Partridge DSUE (1984) 1174/2: C.19–20 (ob.).

(US) deranged.

1949

N. Algren Man with the Golden Arm 215: If you ask me the guy is suck-silly.

a drinker; also attrib.

1585		Nomenclator n.p.: Ebrosius [...] A dronkard, a suckspigget; a great drinker [N].
1643		Horn & Robotham (trans.) Gate of Languages Unlocked Ch. 84 821: A common drunkard (a suck-spiggot, swill-bowl) that is alwaies bibbing.
1661		K.W. Confused Characters of Conceited Coxcombs (1860) 82: Take her altogether and she’s a fine finacle Cambridge production, got by and aiming no higher then some suckspicket sophister .

see separate entry.

(US) to act in a toadying manner (towards).

1915		R. Bolwell ‘College Sl. Words And Phrases’ in DN IV:iii 235: suck around, v. To curry favor, as with an instructor.
1928		Hecht & MacArthur Front Page Act I: You’ve been sucking around that cuckoo ever since he’s been in death house!
1932		W.R. Burnett Giant Swing 180: ‘Young punk! Thinks he is somebody, going to high-hat concerts and sucking around after the aristocrats’.
1941		B. Schulberg What Makes Sammy Run? (1992) 69: Who’s he sucking around now?
1956		I. Shulman Good Deeds Must Be Punished 103: The way he sucks around, always wanting to do what Warren suggests.
1961		J.A. Williams Night Song (1962) 63: ‘That mother,’ Eagle grunted. ‘Always suckin’ around.’.
1981		J. Wambaugh Glitter Dome (1982) 36: Whipdick Woofer’s sucking around Fuzznuts like a pilot fish.

1. (US) to be fearful; to encounter problems.

1958		(con. 1950) E. Frankel Band of Brothers 103: He’s so panicky his sphincter is suckin’ air.
1970		Current Sl. V:3 12: Sucking air, v. To have difficulties in completing a task; to find the ‘going rough.’.

2. (US campus) to laugh.

1989

Eble Campus Sl. Mar.

(N.Z.) of a machine, to break down, to crash.

1984		correspondent to DNZE (1998).
1988		McGill Dict. of Kiwi Sl. 26/2: chew a kumara topdressing plane crash; evolved to suck a kumara, when something seizes, such as a car engine; eg ‘Is that South End Motors? Yeh, Dave here. The old Rover’s sucked the kumara again.’.
2003		McGill Reed Dict. of N.Z. Sl. [as cit. 1988].

see suck someone’s ass under ass n.

(Irish) to enjoy oneself.

1987		Sun. World (Dublin) 25 Oct. 19/4: Hey swinger! ‘Now You’re Suckin Diesel!’.
1999		Eve. Herald (Dublin) 24 Aug. 19/4: He takes credit for having introduced the phrases ‘Now you’re sucking diesel’ and ‘How’s she cuttin’ into Irish parlance.
2001		G. Coughlan Everyday Eng. and Sl. 🌐 Suckin’ diesel (v): having a good time.

see separate entry.

(orig. US campus) to kiss; thus suckfacing n., kissing.

1981		Eble Campus Sl. Mar. 6: suck heads – to kiss effusively and obviously.
1982		Eble Campus Sl. Spring 8: suck face – intense passionate kissing.
1993		B. Moore Lex. of Cadet Lang. 375: suck face to kiss. Cf. swapping spit.
1997		N. Barlay Curvy Lovebox 134: Lendon an’ Jace are suckfacin’ by the fag machine.
2000		J. Baker Chinese Girl (2001) 91: Then the two of them started sucking face like a couple of teenagers.
2012		C. Rosmus ‘Hangdog’ in C. Rhatigan and N. Bird (eds) Pulp Ink 2 [ebook] Every time they did a shot, he and Carolyn sucked face.

see under tit n.²

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(US drugs) to smoke (marijuana).

1958

W. Motley Let No Man Write My Epitaph (1960) 208: A lot of ’em were sucking in on marijuana to get up nerve.

a phr. aimed derisively at someone who has asked what is considered a stupid or impudent question; it is trad. used as a response to the phr. ‘the answer’s a lemon’.

1953		S.J. Baker Aus. Speaks 108: The visitor from abroad who hears Australia’s young using such classic phrases as [...] cheeky possum, galah, suck it and see [etc.].
1980		Barltrop & Wolveridge Muvver Tongue 88: For those who persist in asking ‘the answer’s a lemon’, which leads to ‘suck it and see’.

(US campus) to relax, to lie around.

1989

P. Munro Sl. U.

(US campus) to tolerate, to endure, to deal with.

1960		J. Brosnan Long Season (2018) 165: ‘Two milks and a coffee!’ Robinson returned with a tray of food, swept my money-fantasy papers onto the floor, and said, ‘Here ya go, man. Suck it up.’.
1970		D. Jenkins Saturday’s America 262: ‘“Guts up time . . . Gotta go . . . Gotta get ’em . . . no fumblin’ . . . everbody [sic] get his man . . . Suck it up, suck it up . . . Gotta go . . . We’re the best’.
1978		Eble Campus Sl. Apr. 4: suck it up – to accept or face something without complaining or being angry.
1989		P. Munro Sl. U. 184: I don’t care how much pain you’re in. Just suck it up!
1996		P. Beatty White Boy Shuffle 223: The first thing I heard was the familiar voice of Coach Shimimoto [...] ‘Suck it up, Kaufman!’.
2001		D. Looser Boobslang [U. Canterbury D.Phil. thesis] 180/2: suck it in v. to cope with a negative situation by sucking in all of one’s fear and unwanted emotions so as to present a brave facade .
2005		D. Vandenberg Iron Circle 92: [I]nstead of surrendering like he should have, he sucked up the pain, got up, and came at me again.
2011		G. Hayward Corruption Officer [ebk] cap. 54: Suck it up nigga. You knew what it was when you decided to ride.
2013		K. Sampson Killing Pool 238: Stay loose. Suck it up, McCartney. Suck that rubbish up .
2015		N. Cummins Tales of the Honey Badger [ebook] I sucked it [i.e. a sporting defeat] up [...] an an hour later walked back to class.
2017		D. Winslow The Force [ebook] ‘You want to protect your partners, Malone? You suck it up, you stay on the Job’.
2018		R. O’Neill ‘Ocker’ in The Drover’s Wives (2019) 181: ‘No use being a big sook [...] Suck it up, princess’.
2023		M. Herron Secret Hours 44: ‘The best I can do for you is encourage you to sit down and suck it up’.

see under lemon n.

see separate entry.

to drink.

1608		Dekker Belman of London H4: When these Horse-leeches haue suckt their guts full.
c.1698		B.E. Dict. Canting Crew n.p.: We’ll go and Suck our Faces, but if they toute us, we’ll take rattle and brush, c. let’s go to Drink and be merry, but if we be Smelt, by the People of the House, we must Scower off. He loves to Suck his Face, he delights in Drinking.
1725		New Canting Dict. [as cit. c.1698].
1737, 1759, 1760, 1776		Bailey Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. [as cit. c.1698].
1741		Canting Academy, or the Pedlar’s-French Dict. 118: He drinks well He sucks his Muns rumly.

see under salt n.³

(US) to suffer, to endure hardship.

1978

L.K. Truscott IV Dress Gray (1979) 379: The attitude was ... I’ve sucked shit this long, why not another goddamn year?

see under ass n.

see under titty n.

see swap spit(s) under swap v.

see under suds n.¹

see kiss teeth under kiss v.

to spend money.

1824

‘Sonnets for the Fancy’ in Egan Boxiana III 621: In Leicester Fields, as most the story know, / ‘Come black your worship for a single mag,’ / And while he shin’d his Nelly suck’d the bag.

see under bamboo n.

1. to suck liquor through a straw from the ship’s barrel, which has been bored with a gimlet.

1773		C. Shadwell Fair Quaker of Deal (rev.) III iv: I command thee to sing the song you made on the head of an empty gin cag, after you had sucked the monkey with it.
1785, 1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
1811		Lex. Balatronicum.
1821		W. Scott Pirate II 296: Why, he has sucked the monkey so long and so often [...] that the best of him is buff’d.
1837		Morn. Post (London) 28 Sept. 3/5: The deceased had been employed on the rum-quay at the West India Docks, and got what is called ‘sucking the monkey,’ and drank such a quantity that he became [...] insensible.
1848		North-Carolinan (Fayetteville, NC) 18 Nov. 1/6: Drunk [...] muddled, o-be-joyful, been sucking the monkey.
1864, 1867, 1870		Hotten Sl. Dict.
1867		W.H. Smyth Sailor’s Word-Bk (1991) 106: Bleeding the Monkey. The monkey is the tall pyramidal kid or bucket, which conveys the grog from the grog-tub to the mess – stealing from this in transitu is so termed. [Ibid.] 665: Suck the Monkey, to. To rob the grog-can.
1895		Crowe Aus. Sl. Dict. 82: Suck the Monkey, to take liquor from a cask by inserting a straw.
1936		in Randolph & Legman Ozark Folksongs and Folklore (1992) I 427: Oh, the crow fucked the buzzard, / And the buzzard fucked the crow, / And we all suck the monkey / On the O-hi-O!
1950		P. Hoskins No Hiding Place! 192/1: Suck the Money [sic] Tapping a liquor cask.
1992		Randolph & Legman Ozark Folksongs and Folklore I 427: When I asked what ‘sucking the monkey’ meant, he told me cheerfully it was ‘an old Army word’ for drinking whiskey straight, out of the bunghole of a barrel.

2. to replace the milk of a coconut with rum, and consume it through a straw.

1834		Marryat Peter Simple (1911) 241: ‘Do you know what sucking the monkey’ means? ‘No, Sir.’ ‘Well, then, I’ll tell you; it is a term used among seamen for drinking rum out of cocoa-nuts, the milk having been poured out, and the liquor substituted.’.
1836		F. Chamier Ben Brace (3 edn) 3: I was as good a looking a fellow as ever [...] sucked a monkey† at Barbadoes [note] † Drinking rum out of a cocoa-nut, the milk being drawn off and the spirit substituted.

3. (also take a suck at the monkey) to drink from the bottle or hip-flask.

1840		R. Barham ‘The Black Mousquetaire’ in Ingoldsby Legends (1842) 21: St. Foix never would drink now unless he was dry; / Besides, what the vulgar call ‘sucking the monkey’ / Had much less effect on a man when he’s funky.
1840		Flash Mirror 5: Liquors may not be sold there, yet [...] there is no law to prevent a man from sucking his own monkey, or carrying a pocket pistol.
1864		Daily Tel. 26 July n.p.: The bourgeois warriors [...] were smoking or taking a suck at the monkey, otherwise the whisky flask [F&H].

1. for one omnibus to lose its passengers to those of a rival firm, which has boxed it in.

1873

Sl. Dict.

2. in fig. use, to render impotent and beyond hope, to put at an utter disadvantage, usu. as left sucking the mop.

1967		D. Barthelme Snow White 158: ‘NOW I have been left sucking the mop again,’ Jane blurted out.
1975		A. Kavan My Soul in China 145: Now he was acclaimed as a patriot-hero and I was left sucking the mop. Life is damned unfair.
2002		J. Harrison Raw and Cooked Adventures 171: On a recent longish trip to Los Angeles — where the raw meat was thrown on the floor and I was left sucking the mop, a vilely mixed but accurate metaphor.

(Aus.) to drink (heavily).

1913

Truth (Sydney) 30 Mar. 11/5: They can suck the sponge, that couple, / [...] / Whiskey mostly are their fancy.

see under sugar-stick n.

(US campus) to kiss passionately.

1991		Eble Campus Sl. Mar.
a.2003		mk1299 ‘Rev. of Teenage Bad Girls’ on Doctor Shock’s Drive-In 🌐 The gals also stage a make-out party when the parents are away, inviting the most pathetic group of overaged JDs ever seen on film to suck tonsils with them.

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(US) a dismissive excl.

2016		New Yorker 11-18 July 🌐 You go to Hell, go to work, go to Hell, suck a dick.
2016		Guardian Sport 4 Oct. 1/4: ‘I’m the greatest [...] so go suck a dick’.

see separate entry.

(US) a dismissive excl.

1970

(con. 1950s) H. Junker ‘The Fifties’ in Eisen Age of Rock 2 (1970) 100: Suck gas. Wise up. Don’t bug me.

see under ass n.

see sucks (to you)! excl.

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see sucks (to you)! excl.

(UK black) general dismissive excl.

2020

G. Krauze What They Was 129: Timmy said you need to run me my p’s blood. Gotti told Timmy to suck his mum.