tucker

verb
/ˈtʌkə/UK/ˈtʌkɚ/US/ˈtʌkə(ɹ)/UK

Etymology

From Middle English tukere (“one who dresses or finishes cloth”).

  1. inherited from tukere

Definitions

  1. To tire out or exhaust a person or animal.

    • Man, I’m so tuckered from my run today.
  2. One who or that which tucks.

  3. Food

    Food; tuck.

    • By the fire the billies were boiling, the tucker of both camps spread out on tarpaulins.
  4. + 6 more definitions
    1. Work that scarcely yields a living wage.

    2. Lace or a piece of cloth in the neckline of a dress.

      • “Now let us go home, and never mind Aunt March to-day. We can run down there any time, and it′s really a pity to trail through the dust in our best bibs and tuckers, when we are tired and cross.”
    3. A fuller

      A fuller; one who fulls cloth.

    4. A south-western English surname originating as an occupation

      A south-western English surname originating as an occupation; equivalent to Fuller.

    5. A male given name transferred from the surname, of modern usage.

      • Jackson Sparks and his brother, Tucker, were both struck.
    6. A number of places in the United States

      A number of places in the United States:

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA