Usually means: Drawing in by creating vacuum.
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We found 28 dictionaries that define the word sucking:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. sucking: Merriam-Webster
  2. sucking: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. sucking: Collins English Dictionary
  4. sucking: Vocabulary.com
  5. Sucking, sucking: Wordnik
  6. sucking: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. sucking: Wiktionary
  8. sucking: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. sucking: Dictionary.com
  10. sucking: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  11. Sucking: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Sucking: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. sucking: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. sucking: Rhymezone
  15. Sucking: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. sucking: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. sucking: FreeDictionary.org
  18. sucking: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. sucking: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sucking: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. sucking: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. sucking: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. sucking: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. sucking, sucking, sucking: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. sucking: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (sucking)

▸ noun:  An act of sucking.
▸ noun:  A sound or motion that sucks.
▸ adjective:  (archaic) Still nourished by the mother's milk, as an infant; suckling.
▸ adjective:  (archaic, by extension, figurative) Young and inexperienced.

Similar:
suction, suckling, insucking, fingersucking, suckjob, licking, succ, thumbsucking, clitsucking, nursing, more...

Opposite:
blowing, blowing up, blowing out

Types:
suction, vacuum, suction cup, suction pump, more...

Phrases:
sucking in, sucking up, Thumb sucking, sucking out, sucking reflex, more...

Adjectives:
blood, nutritive, nonnutritive, thumb, finger, sap, poor, piercing, vigorous, wind, digit



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Similar:
suction, suckling, insucking, fingersucking, suckjob, licking, succ, thumbsucking, clitsucking, nursing, more...

Opposite:
blowing, blowing up, blowing out

Types:
suction, vacuum, suction cup, suction pump, more...

Phrases:
sucking in, sucking up, Thumb sucking, sucking out, sucking reflex, sucking lice, finger sucking, blood sucking, sucking pig, sucking pigs, sucking mud, sucking louse, sucking wound, sucking pump, sucking cock, more...

Adjectives:
blood, nutritive, nonnutritive, thumb, finger, sap, poor, piercing, vigorous, wind, digit



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