tucker
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 12
- Words With Friends
- 14
- Letters
- 6
/ˈtʌkə/
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/ˈtʌkə/ · [ˈtʰʌkə] · /ˈtʌkɚ/ · [ˈtʰʌkɚ] · /ˈtʌkə(ɹ)/(UK) · /ˈtʌkɚ/(US)
Definition of tucker
13 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included
verb
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(slang)To tire out or exhaust a person or animal.
“Man, I’m so tuckered from my run today.”
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verb
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(slang)To tire out or exhaust a person or animal.
“Man, I’m so tuckered from my run today.”
noun
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(countable)One who or that which tucks.
“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.”
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(Australia, New-Zealand, colloquial, uncountable)Food; tuck.
“By the fire the billies were boiling, the tucker of both camps spread out on tarpaulins.”
- (countable, dated, slang, uncountable)Work that scarcely yields a living wage.
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(countable)Lace or a piece of cloth in the neckline of a dress.
““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.””
- (obsolete)A fuller; one who fulls cloth.
name
- (countable, uncountable)A south-western English surname originating as an occupation; equivalent to Fuller.
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(countable, uncountable)A male given name transferred from the surname, of modern usage.
“Jackson Sparks and his brother, Tucker, were both struck.”
“Tucker Carlson (also a jacket and tie guy) picked up on the hoo-ha on his Fox News show, calling the hoodie-jacket combination a “cry for help” and inviting Roger Stone, the disgraced former political operative and author of his own “Best and Worst dressed List,” to comment.”
- (countable, uncountable)A number of places in the United States:
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(countable, uncountable)A number of places in the United States:
“In Tucker, another Atlanta suburb, an undocumented man attending church was arrested after ICE agents arrived, pastor Luis Ortiz told CNN. He said he was in the middle of his sermon when he noticed a couple of members of his church escort the man out.”
- (countable, uncountable)A number of places in the United States:
- (countable, uncountable)A number of places in the United States:
- (countable, uncountable)A number of places in the United States:
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From tuck + -er.
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