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tucker
/ˈtʌkɚ/
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What does tucker mean?
verb
- (slang) To tire out or exhaust a person or animal.
noun
- One who or that which tucks.
- Food; tuck.
More meanings (10)
noun
- Lace or a piece of cloth in the neckline of a dress.
- (dated, slang) Work that scarcely yields a living wage.
- (obsolete) A fuller; one who fulls cloth.
proper noun
- A south-western English surname originating as an occupation; equivalent to Fuller.
- A male given name transferred from the surname, of modern usage.
- 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.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈtʌkɚ/
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Perhaps her favorite--or rather, the one she liked best, for she was too fair and just for conscious favoritism--was Sophy Tucker.
Hilarion: In my mind's eye, I mean — a blushing bride All bib and tucker, frill and furbelow!
More book examples (3)
There was a Mrs. Tucker, who was quite young and married to an old man.
Old Featherstone himself was not in the least anxious about his soul, and had declined to see Mr. Tucker on the subject.
Mrs. Threadgall dropped her head right into her tucker, and, in a lower voice still, repeated the solemn words, “My beloved husband is no more.”