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Embrace the Suck 

Verb, Military Slang: To consciously accept or appreciate something that is extremely unpleasant but unavoidable for forward progress
Staff Seargent: Hey shitbird! I've got a detail for you, follow me to the back of the latrines. *Private gets handed a shovel* Pour that gasoline and diesel over that 55-gallon drum and mix that shit up and burn it good.

Private: You want me to burn this shit and piss?

Staff Seargent: Someone has to do it, it's gotta get done and it ain't gonna be me, so Embrace the Suck private.

embrace the suck 

Often used by NCO's in the military. The term would be used when an individual or a group must complete a task that is pointless, tiring, and/or lame.
NCO: Hey gather up, we need to mow the grass before we are released today.
Soldier: That's bullshit, we had all day to do that.
NCO: Well then just embrace the suck and get it done.
embrace the suck by AaronScott March 28, 2008

What the suck!?? 

A question and exclamation describing the negative in something, showing a measure of something that sucks.
This month's movies has country fried remakes of Footloose, steampunk Musketeers and a whiny emo soundtrack to the game Batman Arkham City. What the suck!??
What the suck!?? by BondDave October 21, 2011

fuck the suck 

What a Marine says when he is totally and wholly pissed the fuck off at the Marine Corps.
It is friggin hot, sand in my ass and treeless here. "Fuck the Suck" I am ready to go home to kick Jodi's ass and get Suzi Q back."
fuck the suck by Sigman July 9, 2006

Is the suck 

Molly: Dude your name is the suck.
Stupid-face152: Yeah i know...
Is the suck by Kapil June 13, 2007

In the suck 

The location you are living in, or the location you were living in, when that place is The suck.
Most Marines spend two tours 'in the suck'.

Send more water, it's hot here 'in the suck'.
In the suck by Don Buhler July 30, 2006