noun General Slang

the Suck

· noun · military

The Marine Corps. Said with love. Mostly.

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1

What Marines call the Marine Corps — and only Marines get to call it that. The name says it: it sucks, you signed up for it sucking, and you'd do it again. Used affectionately, bitterly, and everything in between, often in the same sentence.

“Twelve years in the Suck and I still can't sleep past 0500.”
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By extension, any particularly grim deployment, billet, or stretch of duty. The field op that won't end. The barracks with no AC. The ship you've been stuck on for nine months.

“Welcome to the Suck, boot — first field op's always the longest.”
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the Suck In A Sentence

Twelve years in the Suck and I still can't sleep past 0500.
Welcome to the Suck, boot — first field op's always the longest.

Origin & Usage

Variants The Suck

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