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tucks

/tʌks/

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What does tucks mean?

verb

  1. third-person singular simple present indicative of tuck

noun

  1. plural of tuck

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IPA pronunciation

/tʌks/

CMU Pronouncing Dictionary

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The green dress was made up with as many tucks and frills and shirrings as Emily’s taste permitted.
L. M. (Lucy Maud) MontgomeryAnne of Green GablesProject Gutenberg ebook #45
While in midair he half tucks up his feet, which gives him the appearance of an automatic toy.
Stewart Edward WhiteThe Land of FootprintsProject Gutenberg ebook #1378
More book examples (3)
The fam’d physician tucks his robes around With ready hands, and hastens to the wound.
VirgilThe AeneidTranslated by John DrydenProject Gutenberg ebook #228
‘Her mother let down two tucks in her frocks only last week.
Charles DickensDavid CopperfieldProject Gutenberg ebook #766
When the woman is at work in the house or elsewhere, she tucks up the apron by drawing the front flap backwards between her legs, and tucking it tightly into the band behind, thus reducing it to the proportions and appearance of a small pair of bathing-drawers.
Charles Hose; William McDougallThe Pagan Tribes of Borneo A Description of Their Physical Moral and Intellectual Condition, with Some Discussion of Their Ethnic RelationsProject Gutenberg ebook #3307