Meanings
tuck in1
present singular third person tucks in · participle present tucking in · participle past tucked in · past tucked in
- intransitiveTo pull the blankets or duvet up over oneself; to get in bed.
Always my man, always. Have a peaceful night when you tuck in.
2025 February 27, @PhanTom_X777X, Twitter1 more example
Life on the island feels great! When the sun rises, I wakey-wakey, and when it sets, I tuck in fer snoozer-time! Perfect fer a simple bloke like me, right?
2004, Intelligent Systems, translated by Nintendo of America, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Nintendo, GameCube - businessTo acquire something tiny
- transitiveball gamesTo score from with a casual motion
And although Steven Fletcher cut the deficit for Wolves, tucking in Stephen Hunt's cross, the home side held on.
2011 September 24, Arindam Rej, “Liverpool 2 - 1 Wolverhampton”, in BBC Sport - To place in a small space.
"Tuck it in that corner."
1 more example
Since then we have had the opportunity to travel in them and were much impressed by the internal styling and comfort of the seating (with the minor exception of the single seats which have been tucked in longitudinally alongside some of the entrance vestibules and which are so cramped that only the slimmest of female figures could be comfortable in them; the space they occupy would have been better utilised to increase standing room).
1960 December, “The Glasgow Suburban Electrification is opened”, in Trains Illustrated, page 715
tuck in2
present singular third person tucks in · participle present tucking in · participle past tucked in · past tucked in
- intransitiveTo eat heartily.
Tuck in, before the food goes cold.
1 more example
Still, he tucked in handsomely to bacon and tomato on fried bread, felicitating himself on the considered wisdom of his arrival in the character of guest to Bradly.
1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 74
Synonyms & antonyms
verbeat up; usually refers to a considerable quantity of food
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
Bulgarian подпъхвам
- подпъхвам (podpăhvam)to pull the blankets or duvet up over (someone in bed); to put (someone) to bed
Catalan acotxar
- acotxarto pull the blankets or duvet up over (someone in bed); to put (someone) to bed
Dutch instoppen
- instoppento pull the blankets or duvet up over (someone in bed); to put (someone) to bed
Esperanto ĉirkaŭkovri, enlitigi
- ĉirkaŭkovrito pull the blankets or duvet up over (someone in bed); to put (someone) to bed
- enlitigito pull the blankets or duvet up over (someone in bed); to put (someone) to bed
Finnish peitellä, kääriä
- peitelläto pull the blankets or duvet up over (someone in bed); to put (someone) to bed
- kääriäto pull the blankets or duvet up over (someone in bed); to put (someone) to bed
- pannato push in loose clothing
German zudecken, eindecken
- zudeckento pull the blankets or duvet up over (someone in bed); to put (someone) to bed
- eindeckento pull the blankets or duvet up over (someone in bed); to put (someone) to bed
- tuckento push in loose clothing
Hungarian lefektet (és betakar), ágyba tesz
- lefektet (és betakar)to pull the blankets or duvet up over (someone in bed); to put (someone) to bed
- ágyba teszto pull the blankets or duvet up over (someone in bed); to put (someone) to bed
- ágyba dugto pull the blankets or duvet up over (someone in bed); to put (someone) to bed
- tűrto push in loose clothing
- betűrto push in loose clothing
- bedugto push in loose clothing
- begyűrto push in loose clothing
- betuszkolto push in loose clothing
- besuvasztto push in loose clothing
- begyömöszölto push in loose clothing
Japanese はさみ込む
- はさみ込む (hasamikomu)to push in loose clothing
Māori pūroku
- pūrokuto push in loose clothing
Polish otulać, otulić
- otulaćto pull the blankets or duvet up over (someone in bed); to put (someone) to bed
- otulićto pull the blankets or duvet up over (someone in bed); to put (someone) to bed
- wpychaćto push in loose clothing
- wepchnąćto push in loose clothing
- wcinaćTranslations
- zajadaćTranslations
- wsuwaćTranslations
- wsunąćTranslations
- pałaszowaćTranslations
- spałaszowaćTranslations
Russian прикры́ть, прикрыва́ть
- прикры́ть (prikrýtʹ)to pull the blankets or duvet up over (someone in bed); to put (someone) to bed
- прикрыва́ть (prikryvátʹ)to pull the blankets or duvet up over (someone in bed); to put (someone) to bed
- запра́вить (zaprávitʹ)to push in loose clothing
- заправля́ть (zapravljátʹ)to push in loose clothing
Spanish arropar, arrebujar
- arroparto pull the blankets or duvet up over (someone in bed); to put (someone) to bed
- arrebujarto pull the blankets or duvet up over (someone in bed); to put (someone) to bed
- aborujarto pull the blankets or duvet up over (someone in bed); to put (someone) to bed
- emborujarto pull the blankets or duvet up over (someone in bed); to put (someone) to bed
- emburujarto pull the blankets or duvet up over (someone in bed); to put (someone) to bed
- remeterto push in loose clothing
- meter adentroto push in loose clothing
- yantar con apetitoTranslations
Swedish stoppa om, stoppa in
- stoppa omto pull the blankets or duvet up over (someone in bed); to put (someone) to bed
- stoppa into push in loose clothing
Welsh twcio i mewn, lapio
- twcio i mewnto pull the blankets or duvet up over (someone in bed); to put (someone) to bed
- lapioto pull the blankets or duvet up over (someone in bed); to put (someone) to bed
- twcio i mewnto push in loose clothing
Cite this entry
tuck in. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tuck%20in
“tuck in.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tuck%20in. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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