Tucker

/ˈtʌkə/ · verb

Meaning

(slang) To tire out or exhaust a person or animal..

Definitions by Sense

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

Example Sentences

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

Discrimination. Firm, after having had a long controversy with its tuckers, laid off the whole tucking department for a week. Union maintained it was a clear case cf discrimination against the tuckers on account of the recent controversy. Determination: Complaint of the union was sustained. Tuckers were paid the amount of money they were deprived of through being discriminated against, $158.90.

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

“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.”

“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.”

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Word Forms

• tuckers
• tuckering
• tuckered

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