tucker

present singular third person tuckers · participle present tuckering · participle past tuckered · past tuckered

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

   Man, I’m so tuckered from my run today.

plural tuckers

1. countableOne who or that which tucks.

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   Discrimination. Firm, after having had a long controversy with its tuckers, laid off the whole tucking department for a week. Union maintained it was a clear case cf discrimination against the tuckers on account of the recent controversy. Determination: Complaint of the union was sustained. Tuckers were paid the amount of money they were deprived of through being discriminated against, $158.90.

   1914, US Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Conciliation, Arbitration, and Sanitation in the Dress and Waist Industry of New York City, Bulletin of the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, No. 145, page 108, Nature of Grievance

2. AustraliaNew ZealandcolloquialuncountableFood; tuck.

   By the fire the billies were boiling, the tucker of both camps spread out on tarpaulins.

   1937, Ion L. Idriess, Over the Range, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, published 1947, page 10

3. countabledatedslanguncountableWork that scarcely yields a living wage.

plural tuckers

1. countableLace 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.”

   1869, Louisa May Alcott, Good Wives, published 1903, page 57

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   “And, ma′am,” he continued, “the laundress tells me some of the girls have two clean tuckers in the week: it is too much; the rules limit them to one.” “I think I can explain that circumstance, sir. Agnes and Catherine Johnstone were invited to take tea with some friends at Lowton last Thursday, and I gave them leave to put on clean tuckers for the occasion.”

   1847, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, unnumbered page

2. obsoleteA fuller; one who fulls cloth.

plural Tuckers

1. countableuncountableA south-western English surname originating as an occupation; equivalent to Fuller.
2. countableuncountableA male given name transferred from the surname, of modern usage.

   Jackson Sparks and his brother, Tucker, were both struck.

   2022 October 26, Christina Zdanowicz, Claudia Dominguez, Lauren M. Johnson, Sara Smart, “The Waukesha victims included an 8-year-old boy, a loving grandmother and a woman excited to make her debut in the Dancing Grannies”, in CNN, archived from the original on 04 Dec 2022

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   Tucker Carlson (also a jacket and tie guy) picked up on the hoo-ha on his Fox News show, calling the hoodie-jacket combination a “cry for help” and inviting Roger Stone, the disgraced former political operative and author of his own “Best and Worst dressed List,” to comment.

   2023 February 20, Vanessa Friedman, “Don Lemon, Nikki Haley and the Lessons of a Hoodie”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 24 Feb 2023

3. A number of places in the United States:
   1. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community and census-designated place in Jefferson County, Arkansas.
   2. countableuncountableA city in DeKalb County, Georgia.

      In Tucker, another Atlanta suburb, an undocumented man attending church was arrested after ICE agents arrived, pastor Luis Ortiz told CNN. He said he was in the middle of his sermon when he noticed a couple of members of his church escort the man out.

      2025 January 26, Priscilla Alvarez, Rosa Flores, “Trump administration launches nationwide immigration enforcement blitz”, in CNN, archived from the original on 09 Mar 2025

   3. countableuncountableA census-designated place in Neshoba County, Mississippi.
   4. countableuncountableAn extinct town in Ripley County, Missouri.
   5. countableuncountableA ghost town in Utah County, Utah.