tucker
tucker Lexical Profile
tucker Game Scores & Validity
• noun
Australian Food, meals, or daily provisions (also used informally in New Zealand).
"After hiking through the bush all morning, the campers were eager to sit by the fire and enjoy some hot tucker."
A historical piece of lace, linen, or muslin worn by women inside or around the top of a low-cut bodice to cover the neck and shoulders during the 17th and 18th centuries.
"The portrait depicted a noblewoman wearing a silk gown trimmed with an intricate lace tucker."
A mechanical attachment on a sewing machine used for folding and stitching decorative tucks or pleats in fabric.
"She attached the tucker to her vintage sewing machine to create even, narrow pleats along the blouse front."
• verb
North American To tire out, weary, or exhaust completely (usually used with 'out' or in the passive as 'tuckered out').
"Chasing the energetic puppies around the yard all afternoon really tuckered the children out."
• Rhymes for tucker
Word Origin & Etymology
Derived from the verb 'tuck' (from Middle English 'tucken', meaning to pull, gather, or full cloth) combined with the agentive suffix '-er'. In Australian and New Zealand slang, the sense of 'food' arose in the mid-19th century among gold miners and bushmen from the older British school slang phrase 'tuck in' (to eat heartily).