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Mi primo no sirve para nada. Pasa todas las tardes con su panda mamando.My cousin is a waste of space. He spends every afternoon boozing with his gang.

3. (to feed from a breast or udder)

a. to suck

A Enrique le dan el biberón porque no quiere mamar la leche de su madre.Enrique is bottlefed because he won't suck his mother's milk.

4. (to absorb)

a. to grow up with

Los hijos de Beckham han mamado el fútbol desde la cuna.Beckham's children have grown up with soccer from birth.

b. to be immersed in

Rosa ha mamado el baile toda la vida.Rosa has been immersed in dance all her life.

5. (to perform fellatio on)

a. to suck off

Su novia se enojó cuando Diego le pidió que le mamara la verga.His girlfriend got mad when Diego asked her to suck him off.

mamarse

6. (to get drunk)

a. to get smashed

Nadie se acuerda de la fiesta porque se mamaron todos.Nobody remembers the party because they all got smashed.

b. to get sloshed

Cuando se murió su madre, se mamó para tratar de ahogar las penas.When his mother died, he got sloshed in an attempt to drown his sorrows.

mamar

1. (leche)

a. to suckle

2. (fig)

lo mamó desde pequeñohe was immersed in it as a child

3. (muy fam) (Spain)

a. to knock back

4. (general)

a. to suckle

dar de mamarto breastfeed

5. (muy fam) ()

a. to get plastered

mamar

transitive verb

1 [+leche, pecho] to suck

2 (asimilar)

lo mamó desde pequeño he grew up with it from childhood

ha mamado la profesión desde niña

nació mamando el oficio he was born to the trade; todavía no han mamado suficiente democracia democracy hasn't become a way of life yet

3 (devorar) [+comida] to wolf down; bolt; [+recursos] to milk; suck dry; [+fondos] to pocket (illegally)

¡cómo la mamamos! this is the life!; we never had it so good!

4 (sexualmente) to suck off (vulgar); give a blow job (vulgar)

intransitive verb

1 [+bebé] to suck

dar de mamar a un bebé to feed a baby; dar de mamar a una cría to suckle a baby

¡no mames! (México) come off it! (familiar); don't give me that! (familiar)

2 (beber) to booze (familiar); drink

pronominal verb

mamarse

1 (emborracharse) to get smashed (muy_familiar); get sloshed (familiar)

2 [+puesto, ventaja] to wangle (familiar)

mamarse a algn (Latinoamérica) (engañar) to take sb for a ride (familiar); (Centroamérica) (matar) to do sb in (muy_familiar)

mamarse un susto to give o.s. a fright

5 (And) (rajarse) to go back on one's word

Phrases with "mamar"

Here are the most popular phrases with "mamar." Click the phrases to see the full entry.

mamar gallo		to pull someone's leg
dar de mamar		to breastfeed

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Verb Conjugations for mamar

Present Participle: mamando

Past Participle: mamado

Indicative

	Present	Preterite	Imperfect	Conditional	Future
yo	mamo	mamé	mamaba	mamaría	mamaré
tú	mamas	mamaste	mamabas	mamarías	mamarás
él/ella/Ud.	mama	mamó	mamaba	mamaría	mamará
nosotros	mamamos	mamamos	mamábamos	mamaríamos	mamaremos
vosotros	mamáis	mamasteis	mamabais	mamaríais	mamaréis
ellos/ellas/Uds.	maman	mamaron	mamaban	mamarían	mamarán

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