Meanings
plural tuckerboxes · alternative tucker box
- AustraliaA box used when travelling to store food or provisions.
His dog not only sat on the tuckerbox but also shit on it.
1982, Paul Radley, My Blue-Checker Corker and Me, Sydney: Fontana/Collins, page 961 more example
To Charlie, the function of a house was to keep the dew off your swag at night and shade the waterbag and tuckerboxes during the day.
2005, Jim Gasteen, Under the Mulga: A Bush Memoir, page 182
Origin
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