SUCK UP meaning: Ingratiate oneself through excessive flattery

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General (13 matching dictionaries)

suck up: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
suck-up: Merriam-Webster
suck-up, suck up: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
suck up: Vocabulary.com
suck-up: Wordnik
suck-up, suck up: Wiktionary
suck-up, suck up: Dictionary.com
suck up: Rhymezone
suck up: FreeDictionary.org
suck up: Mnemonic Dictionary
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suck up: Encyclopedia

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suck up: Idioms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)

suck up: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
suck up: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
suck-up: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (suck up)

▸ verb:  (transitive) To absorb (fluid).
▸ verb:  (slang, often followed by to) To adulate or flatter (someone) excessively, generally to obtain some personal benefit or favour.
▸ verb:  (slang) To fellate (someone).

Similar:

absorb, sop up, soak up, suck, cozy up, play up, shine up, bootlick, toady, kowtow, more...

Opposite:

rebuke, criticize, oppose, defy, challenge

Phrases:

suck it up, suck up to, to suck up, tending to suck up, refuse to suck it up and admit defeat, more...

Adjectives:

resorbent, sucking, spouting, mainline, eaten, evaginate, absorbed, drooly, sodden, sparge, spiff

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