tucker
IPA: tˈʌkɝ
noun
- (countable) One who or that which tucks.
- (uncountable, colloquial, Australia, New Zealand) Food; tuck.
- (slang, dated) Work that scarcely yields a living wage.
- (countable) Lace or a piece of cloth in the neckline of a dress.
- (obsolete) A fuller; one who fulls cloth.
- A south-western English surname originating as an occupation; equivalent to Fuller.
- A male given name transferred from the surname, of modern usage.
- A number of places in the United States:
- An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Jefferson County, Arkansas.
- A city in DeKalb County, Georgia.
- A census-designated place in Neshoba County, Mississippi.
- An extinct town in Ripley County, Missouri.
- A ghost town in Utah County, Utah.
verb
- (slang) To tire out or exhaust a person or animal.
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Examples of "tucker" in Sentences
- He also called tucker a dick which was even funnier.
- By rapid travelling our "tucker" could be made to last out the time.
- With a wild whoop fifty of them dashed for tickets, some "tucker," and
- Then follows a feast, the inevitable surfeit, and the dire conclusion that crocodile as "tucker" is no good.
- "Don't mind if I do," each man answered, as he rose from his swag, and moved over to the place where the "tucker" was.
- When Archibald Forbes was in New Zealand a few years ago, he met a peer's son who was earning his 'tucker' as a station-cook.
- June 10th, 2008 1: 36 pm ET he's not being paid to be on the commitee. tucker is lame, and a liar, and a ridiculous republican.
- The remainder of the day belonged to the world, to duty, to the man who paid me a pound a week and "tucker" for my hands and arms and as much brains as work with sheep demanded.
- I was the youngest of the party, and consequently the most inexperienced, but my mates good-naturedly overlooked my shortcomings as a prospector and digger, especially as I had constituted myself the "tucker" provider when our usual rations of salt beef ran out.
- An exquisite portrait of Louis Philippe's Queen, Marie Amelia, by the early Victorian painter Winterhalter (whose paintings are again by the revival of fashion coming into favour) shows this fine old _grande dame_ in black velvet dress covered with three graduated flounces of Brussels lace, cap and lappets and "tucker" of the same lace, lace fan, and, sad to relate, a scarf of English machine-made net, worked with English run embroidery!
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