HOW TO PRONOUNCE
tucks
/tʌks/
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What does tucks mean?
verb
- third-person singular simple present indicative of tuck
noun
- plural of tuck
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IPA pronunciation
/tʌks/
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The green dress was made up with as many tucks and frills and shirrings as Emily’s taste permitted.
While in midair he half tucks up his feet, which gives him the appearance of an automatic toy.
More book examples (3)
The fam’d physician tucks his robes around With ready hands, and hastens to the wound.
‘Her mother let down two tucks in her frocks only last week.
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.