Past tense of suck; to draw in or pull using suction, or slang for being very bad.
From Old English 'sucan,' Germanic root. Originally literal meaning (drawing in through mouth), extended to slang meaning in 20th century.
Suck's transformation into slang for 'was bad' (like 'that movie sucked') is linguistically fascinating—speakers created a whole negative meaning from nothing, pure metaphorical generation!
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