Meaning
To suck — to draw on with the mouth: sucking a sweetie, a mango seed, or juice from a fruit. It also appears in the rude 'suck teeth' (kiss-teeth, a hiss of contempt) and in coarse cursing, so tone and phrase decide the register. 'Chaw' (chew) sits nearby among the eating words.
Examples
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Di pickney a suck him mango.
The child is sucking his mango.
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Suck di juice outta di sugar cane.
Suck the juice out of the sugar cane.
Origin
From English 'suck'. See [[suck-teeth]], [[chaw]].
How it’s used
To draw on with the mouth; note the rude 'suck teeth' and curse uses.