The slang expression "sucks" seems to be both English and American, in print in the later 19th C.
It took hold in America, less so in England.

N. W. Lincolnshire (England) Glossary, 1877- An imposition, a disappointment.
Dow, Sermons, 1856- A monstrous humbug, a grand suck-in.

S. de Vere, Americanisms, 1872- "Suck-in, as a noun and verb, is a graphic Western phrase to express deception."

The sexual connotations seem to be more recent developments.

Many meanings to 'suck'; a plow (plough), the "hissing sound of waves," liquids, to exhaust, etc.

Above quotations and citations from the OED.