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to suck face

to suck face

4 9.9
To kiss someone passionately for a long time
  • phrasal verb
  • /sʌk feɪs/
  • NSFW
translation icon : besar apasionadamente
  • -Wanna suck face?

Examples

  • Fine, I'll go back out and suck face with Wendell.

    High Hopes (2006)

  • Come on, suck face.

    The Pest (1997)

  • It's not like she started sucking face with him right then and there.

    Blog text (25)

  • Their lives at stake, and all Ava wants to do is suck face.

    Fiction book (1998)

  • Kate and Curtis are sucking face, oblivious to the busy world around them.

    Fiction book (1995)

  • Kate and Curtis are sucking face, completely lost in their moment together.

  • At the party, everyone noticed when Jake and Emma started sucking face in the corner.

  • During the romantic scene in the movie, the two characters began sucking face passionately.

Synonyms

kiss
vsto suck face
752 1.0

A touch of lips on someone to show love, greeting, or respect

is more passionate and longer, showing intense extended lip contact

Antonyms

to pull away
86 3.5

To move away from people or a place to create space

How Passionate

to suck face
  • NSFW
4 9.9
French kiss
  • NSFW
6 3.3
to kiss
∞ 1.0
peck
31 2.6

Surface Forms

suck face infinitive
sucked face past
sucked face past participle
sucking face present participle
sucks face third person singular

Morphology

suck + face

The meaning is partly inferable from the parts: 'suck' (a mouth action, often sexual) + 'face' (the front of the head) suggests mouth-to-face contact and thus passionate kissing. However, this is informal/slang and uses a metaphorical/colloquial sense of 'suck' that many B1 learners would not reliably predict or may misinterpret, so prior cultural/exposure knowledge is usually required.

Etymology

Suck face may come from a simple picture: two mouths pressing close and seeming to suck on a person's face, with lips pulling and moving. That's why it now means 'to kiss someone passionately'.