tuck-shopn.
slang.
A pastry-cook's shop for the sale of pastry, sweets, fruit, and the like, chiefly to schoolchildren.
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1857 T. Hughes Tom Brown's School Days i. vi. 127 Come along down to Sally Harrowell's; that's our School-house tuck shop—she bakes such stunning murphies.
1861 W. M. Thackeray Roundabout Papers xvi. 378 We share our toffy; go halves at the tuck-shop; do each other's exercises.
1885 T. Mozley Reminisc. Towns (ed. 2) I. lxii. 410 The five years I was at Charterhouse [1820–5] I never once went near the tuck-shop.
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