sucks

/ (sʌks) /

SEE SYNONYMS FOR sucks

interjection slang

an expression of disappointment

an exclamation of defiance or derision (esp in the phrase yah boo sucks to you)

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You may have read the word "simmer" in a recipe or two, but what does it really mean?

To cook in water that begins cold and then reaches a boil.

To stew in a sauce for a long time.

To cook in water, just below boiling temperature.

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Words nearby sucks

sucking wound, suckle, suckler, suckling, suck off, sucks, suck up to, sucky, sucralfate, sucralose, sucrase

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Republicans need to rebuild their brand, which Rand Paul said quite graphically “sucks.”
Can Obama and a Republican Senate Find Common Ground?|Eleanor Clift|November 4, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Today, she takes the formula from me and sucks down every last drop of liquid like a desert-thirsty nomad.
When An Adopted Child Won’t Attach|Tina Traster|May 2, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Or to put it another if equally inadequate way: Whatever comes next, sucks.
Comedy Is His Calling: The Brilliance of Billy Crystal|Tom Shales|April 18, 2014|DAILY BEAST
In January, the Shreveport Times reported that McAllister said that his job "sucks [and] it ain't no fun."
Duck Dynasty Congressman In Sex Scandal|Ben Jacobs|April 7, 2014|DAILY BEAST

The more he talks, the more he sucks, and viewers and critics have been hopping off the Juan wagon.
Juan Pablo Has Ruined ‘The Bachelor’|Brandy Zadrozny|February 11, 2014|DAILY BEAST
He shakes his head in a dismal way several times, and sucks hard at his cigar as he shakes it.
The Dop Doctor|Clotilde Inez Mary Graves
In a minute or two the newborn pigling creeps close to its mother and sucks milk.
The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4)|J. Arthur Thomson
He must have been strongly tempted to retort: "I wasn't whacked, so sucks!"
Tell England|Ernest Raymond
The practitioner scarifies over the seat of pain, and then sucks about the wound.
Original Narratives of Early American History|Vaca and Others
New York sucks in all the young blood of the country—the talent and energy.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, October, 1877, Vol. XX. No. 118|Various

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