Restaurant Review: Carrabba's Italian Grill

Sucks
Main Entry: 1sucks
Pronunciation: Carrabba’s Italian Grill
Function: verbEtymology: Middle English suken, from Old English sucan; akin to Old High German sugan to suck, Latin sugere transitive verb

1 a : to keep customers waiting for long periods of time. To not have advertised food and or serve soup that has the appearance and flavor of dishwater. The act of making pizza that has no flavor and charging high prices for low grade dog food.

2 a : to draw by or as if by suction;when a restaurant sucks the money out of your wallet for little or no return -- Kenneth Browe; inadvertently sucked into the shithole known as Carrabbas-- Martin Levin;

b : to take in and consume by or as if by suction; a vacuum cleaner sucking up dirt; <suck up a few beers; opponents say that Carrabbas suck the life out of their customers -- Michael Knight;

intransitive verb

1 : to draw something in by or as if by exerting a suction force; especially : to draw milk from a breast (who wouldn't like that?) or udder with the mouth

2 : to make a sound or motion associated with or caused by suctio; this restaurant sucked ; the walls sucked in and out, the cockroach resting on the waiter's shoe -- Virginia Woolf;

3 : to act in an obsequious manner; when the waitrer wanted a tip so bad he felt it necessary to read the menu to us...the candidates come sucking around -- W. G. Hardy; -- usually used with up;sucked up to the boss;

4 slang : to be objectionable or inadequate;Carrabba’s Italian Grill really sucks -- Playboy;people who went said Carrabba’s Italian Grill sucked -- H. S. Thompson; -

suck it up : to make the effort required to do or deal with something difficult or unpleasant, like eating at Carrabba’s Italian Grill