Tucker

Quick meaning: Tucker is a verb meaning (countable) One who or that which tucks.

Meaning

(countable) One who or that which tucks.

More Meanings

1. (uncountable, colloquial, Australia, New Zealand) Food; tuck.
2. (countable) Lace or a piece of cloth in the neckline of a dress.
3. (slang) To tire out or exhaust a person or animal.
4. (slang, dated) Work that scarcely yields a living wage.
5. (obsolete) A fuller; one who fulls cloth.

Example Sentences

Man, I’m so tuckered from my run today.

By the fire the billies were boiling, the tucker of both camps spread out on tarpaulins.

“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.”

“And, ma′am,” he continued, “the laundress tells me some of the girls have two clean tuckers in the week: it is too much; the rules limit them to one.” “I think I can explain that circumstance, sir. Agnes and Catherine Johnstone were invited to take tea with some friends at Lowton last Thursday, and I gave them leave to put on clean tuckers for the occasion.”

Word Forms

• tuckers
• tuckering
• tuckered

Synonyms for tucker

Depending on context, synonyms include beat, exhaust.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include exhaust, beat, booth, taxi, movie, cab.

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