Tuck

/tʌk/ · verb

Meaning

(transitive) To pull or gather up (an item of fabric)..

Definitions by Sense

1. (transitive) To pull or gather up (an item of fabric).
2. (transitive) To push into a snug position; to place somewhere safe, or handy, or somewhat hidden.
3. (intransitive, often with "in" or "into") To eat; to consume.
4. (ergative) To fit neatly.
5. To curl into a ball; to fold up and hold one's legs.
6. To sew folds; to make a tuck or tucks in.
7. To full, as cloth.
8. (ambitransitive, LGBTQ) Of a drag queen, trans woman, etc., to conceal one's penis and testicles, as with a gaff or by fastening them down with adhesive tape.

Example Sentences

Tuck in your shirt.  I tucked in the sheet.  He tucked the $10 bill into his shirt pocket.

She tucked her hair behind her ear.

It was flood-tide along Fifth Avenue; motor, brougham, and victoria swept by on the glittering current; pretty women glanced out from limousine and tonneau; young men of his own type, silk-hatted, frock-coated, the crooks of their walking sticks tucked up under their left arms, passed on the Park side.

The sofa tucks nicely into that corner.

Kenwood House is tucked into a corner of Hampstead Heath.

The diver tucked, flipped, and opened up at the last moment.

to tuck a dress

Honey, have you tucked today? We don't wanna see anything nasty down there.

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• tucks
• tucking
• tucked

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