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tucker

UK /ˈtʌkə/US /ˈtʌkɚ/

noun 5
verb 1
forms 3
phrases 1

noun5

•
(Australia, informal) food of any kind, especially what someone eats at a meal
- By the fire the billies were boiling, the tucker of both camps spread out on tarpaulins. — 1937
•
Lace or a piece of cloth in the neckline of a dress.
- “Now let us go home, and never mind Aunt March to-day. We can run down there any time, and it′s really a pity to trail through the dust in our best bibs and tuckers, when we are tired and cross.” — 1869
One who or that which tucks.
(slang, old-fashioned) Work that scarcely yields a living wage.
(no longer used) A fuller; one who fulls cloth.

verb1

•
(slang) To tire out or exhaust a person or animal.
- Man, I’m so tuckered from my run today.

forms

tuckered · tuckering · tuckers

Phrases with tucker

tucker out
To exhaust; to tire out.

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