Usually means: Performs poorly, fails to satisfy.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. sucks: Merriam-Webster
  2. sucks: Collins English Dictionary
  3. sucks: Vocabulary.com
  4. Sucks, sucks: Wordnik
  5. sucks: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. sucks: Wiktionary
  7. sucks: Dictionary.com
  8. sucks: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Sucks (song), Sucks, .sucks, .sucks (registry): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. sucks: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. sucks: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. sucks: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sucks: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sucks: ESL Slang page

(Note: See suck as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (suck)

noun:  An instance of drawing something into one's mouth by inhaling.
noun:  (uncountable) Milk drawn from the breast.
noun:  An indrawing of gas or liquid caused by suction.
noun:  (uncountable) The ability to suck; suction.
noun:  A part of a river towards which strong currents converge making navigation difficult.
noun:  (Canada) A weak, self-pitying person; a person who refuses to go along with others, especially out of spite; a crybaby or sore loser.
noun:  A sycophant, especially a child.
noun:  (slang, dated) A short drink, especially a dram of spirits.
noun:  (vulgar) An act of fellatio.
noun:  (slang, uncountable, sometimes considered vulgar) Badness or mediocrity.
verb:  (transitive) To use the mouth and lips to pull in (a liquid, especially milk from the breast).
verb:  (intransitive) To perform such an action; to feed from a breast or teat.
verb:  (transitive) To put the mouth or lips to (a breast, a mother etc.) to draw in milk.
verb:  (transitive) To extract, draw in (a substance) from or out of something.
verb:  (transitive, archaic) To inhale (air), to draw (breath).
verb:  (transitive) To work the lips and tongue on (an object) to extract moisture or nourishment; to absorb (something) in the mouth.
verb:  (transitive) To pull (something) in a given direction, especially without direct contact.
verb:  (transitive, slang, vulgar) To perform fellatio.
verb:  (chiefly Canada, US, intransitive, stative, colloquial, sometimes vulgar) To be inferior or objectionable: a general term of disparagement, sometimes used with at to indicate a particular area of deficiency.
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