English Explanatory Dictionary

suck up

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To absorb (fluid).
  2. To adulate or flatter (someone) excessively, generally to obtain some personal benefit or favour.
  3. To fellate (someone).

Pronunciation

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Word forms

suck up sucks up sucking up sucked up

Synonyms

apple-polish bootlick bow and scrape brownnose butter up dickride duchess fawn fawn over fellate flannel honey around honey up kiss someone's ass kiss someone's ring kiss up kowtow lick someone's ass lick someone's balls overflatter overpraise overrate suck up toady

Antonyms

answer back argue bully disobey dominate domineer persevere sass stand one's ground talk back

Related words

crawl creep grovel sycophant sycophantic
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