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Examples
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You can expect to walk a lot in conditions varying from solid, wet pasture ground to boot-sucking marsh muck.
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Aggressive lugs bite hard on slippery turf but shed mud quickly, and a snug ankle-lock fit tames boot-sucking bogs.
Six Warm Weather Hunting Boots Recommended by Field & Stream 2006
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You'll have to navigate creek channels, beaver dams, and boot-sucking mud, so give yourself plenty of time for the often difficult hump in to a beaver pond.
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Towards the sea are the bejewelled and boot-sucking Pevensey Levels, a miraculous habitat.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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Second Squad swept ahead, establishing over-watch positions so 3rd Squad could safely patrol open land crisscrossed by canals that needed to be hurdled and boot-sucking fields that had been flooded by farmers earlier in the day.
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Some of our outings required Wellington boot-sucking treks through rain-saturated cow and sheep pastures.
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"This is living the dream," Comer smirked as he and the others squeezed through a zone of man-sized ragweed plants, stumbled down ravines, slogged through boot-sucking mud, dodged silver-dollar sized spiders and clawed through curtains of tangled vines to finally reach the relative high ground of the first trap site.
chron.com Chronicle 2009
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Before it was drained, it was a boot-sucking marsh that might have swallowed an entire army as easily as a Venus flytrap swallows a gnat.
The Civic Platform - A Political Journal of Ideas and Analysis Ahnenerbe 2008
slumry commented on the word boot-sucking
A descriptor of mud: We walked through boot-sucking mud all the way to Shi-Shi beach. Really.
July 23, 2007