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tucker

/ˈtʌkɚ/

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What does tucker mean?

verb

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

noun

  1. One who or that which tucks.
  2. Food; tuck.
More meanings (10)

noun

  1. Lace or a piece of cloth in the neckline of a dress.
  2. (dated, slang) Work that scarcely yields a living wage.
  3. (obsolete) A fuller; one who fulls cloth.

proper noun

  1. A south-western English surname originating as an occupation; equivalent to Fuller.
  2. A male given name transferred from the surname, of modern usage.
  3. An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Jefferson County, Arkansas.
  4. A city in DeKalb County, Georgia.
  5. A census-designated place in Neshoba County, Mississippi.
  6. An extinct town in Ripley County, Missouri.
  7. 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.
VariousThe Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial IssueProject Gutenberg ebook #206
Hilarion: In my mind's eye, I mean — a blushing bride All bib and tucker, frill and furbelow!
Arthur Sullivan; W. S. (William Schwenck) GilbertThe Complete Plays of Gilbert and SullivanProject Gutenberg ebook #808
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There was a Mrs. Tucker, who was quite young and married to an old man.
Carry Amelia NationThe Use and Need of the Life of Carry A. NationProject Gutenberg ebook #1485
Old Featherstone himself was not in the least anxious about his soul, and had declined to see Mr. Tucker on the subject.
George EliotMiddlemarchProject Gutenberg ebook #145
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.”
Wilkie CollinsThe MoonstoneProject Gutenberg ebook #155