Usually means: Ingratiate oneself through excessive flattery.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. suck-up: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. suck-up, suck up: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. suck up: Vocabulary.com
  4. suck-up: Wordnik
  5. suck-up, suck up: Wiktionary
  6. suck-up, suck up: Dictionary.com
  7. suck up: Rhymezone
  8. suck up: Free Dictionary
  9. suck up: Mnemonic Dictionary
  10. suck-up, suck up: Dictionary/thesaurus

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. suck up: Encyclopedia

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  1. suck up: Idioms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. suck up: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. suck up: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. 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).

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