sucks: (suk), adj. [stinks, blows. var: sucks ass].

1. when your fraction collector malfunctions in your 3rd week at a new job, spitting about 600ml of precious crude peptide all over your dusty collection tray and not in the neat rows of little tubes you painstakingly labelled all morning. in addition, when you have to recover said peptide, 10ml at a time, with an old-fashioned bulb pipetter from the days of the scopes monkey trial. and filter it, 10 ml at a time, into 50ml conicals. and start all over. with your boss watching.

2. when the following day, your car defroster/heater blower motor says "i quit." and you have to drive 50-some-odd miles to work with the windows open. and it's 20 degrees. and the rotting minivan you semi-cut off on 495, due to your fogged up rear windows, decides to order a fatwa on your bumper, testing your non-anti-lock brake mojo (sincere appreciation for recently acquired skills at the o'neil school).