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fivezero Jan 13, 2004

the usage of the word SUCKS is inappropriate to begin with. poor taste. implies oral sex. not cool.

yodasucka Jan 13, 2004

I honestly HATE it when people say that.. my mom says that to me all the time, I'm sorry but when I say that someone/thing sucks, the farthest thing from my mind is oral sex... just because it CAN ...

fivezero Jan 13, 2004

sucka is short for sucker. to call someone a sucker, in slang, means that they are easily taken, or like a suckling child in logical deduction. thats the gist. so, no. yodaSUCKA is not offensiv...

iwz iwz

i don't trust dictionaries to tell me what the common usage of a word really means

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dgiaimoOG 2003

Yeah. Usage is everything. If a word no longer has a certain connotation to the general public then it no longer has that connotation.

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