tucker fucker

noun

A cook, especially a second-rate one.

Meanings

nountucker fucker (countable and uncountable, plural tucker fuckers)

plural tucker fuckers

  1. AustraliacountablederogatoryslangvulgarA cook, especially a second-rate one.

    2003, Gary Blinco, Down a Country Lane, Zeus Publications, eBookIt, unnumbered page, ‘Let's have a cuppa tea,’ he said. ‘The tucker fuckers (cooks) always do a bit extra, the bloody instructors always knock it off.’

    2 more examples

    I never made it as a ‘Tucker Fucker’ (a cook), but I made it as a grunt—crap food and buggered and wet, or buggered and dry, all the time.

    2001, Peter Haran, Robert Kearney, Crossfire: An Australian Reconnaissance Unit in Vietnam, unnumbered page

    “[…]Yer see, young feller, cooks is graded up here. On top yer gets cooks. After ′em comes tucker fuckers. Then bait layers. An′ last of all yer gets yer willful bloody murderers.”

    2010, Jim Nicolson, Long Creek, iUniverse, page 10
  2. AustraliacountableslangvulgarA microwave oven.
  3. AustraliaslanguncountablevulgarTomato sauce.

Origin

From tucker (“food”) + fucker (“one who ruins”).

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