suck rubber
v. phr.— «They fired at us 10 times. We had the “chem” gear on the whole time sucking rubber.» —“Carrier launches ‘cataclysmic’ bomb campaign.” by Isambard Wilkinson Daily Telegraph (U.K.) Mar. 22, 2003. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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