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单词 tucker
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Definition of tucker in English:

tucker

noun ˈtʌkəˈtəkər
  • 1Australian NZ informal mass noun Food.

    what's the best tucker for setting you up for a job?
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The day will feature informal workshops on face painting and wool weaving, information displays, kids activities and a BBQ of traditional tucker.
    • The second kind of food, bush tucker, is not as readily available.
    • For thousands of years bush tucker was the only food eaten in Australia - food that hopped, crawled, slithered or grew in a land populated entirely by indigenous people.
    • Is your research suggesting that land management, spending more time in the bush, eating bush tucker, is a serious health strategy that could really make a difference?
    • And classic Aussie tucker isn't forgotten either, if this is what you're after it's worth heading to the Roadkill cafe, a favourite with international visitors!
  • 2historical A piece of lace or linen worn in or around the top of a bodice or as an insert at the front of a low-cut dress.

    See also one's best bib and tucker at bib
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The way he went after that plump sister in the lace tucker, was an outrage on the credulity of human nature.
    • The term tucker presumably developed because they were at first loosely tucked in to the bodice of the dress.
verb ˈtʌkəˈtəkər
[with object]usually be tuckered outNorth American informal
  • Exhaust; wear out.

    he is bewildered and tuckered out with the waiting
    Example sentencesExamples
    • You can imagine that this leaves me somewhat tuckered out at the end of a given day.
    • ‘Well, we are tuckered out and couldn't figure out which bus take,’ I said.
    • Toward the end of the movie, though, even they were worn out; plum tuckered by the endless repetition.
    • After the celebration, at midnight, everybody was all tuckered out and one by one, went off to bed.
    • By late Sunday afternoon, it had started to rain, and many of us were pretty tuckered out, so this work didn't proceed as rapidly as we had hoped.
    • Working women are more likely than their male colleagues to be tuckered out when they get home.
    • After half an hour of this, he was tuckered out and wandered off.
    • Others are tuckered out and spend the day resting.
    • It was still early, but the boy was tuckered after the long day of excitement.
    • Hearing the sound of snoring, she turned around and saw that Robert had fallen asleep, having tuckered himself out from all the excitement.
    • Max, always tuckered out these days, fell asleep.
    • At the two hour mark I was really getting pretty tuckered out, and began making silly mistakes.
    • I've got to get going, I'm a bit tuckered out from a rousing game of Bridge.
    • Once he is tuckered out his opponent will take over and win easily.
    • The two of them were so tuckered out it didn't take much.
    • ‘She had a big day at her great-grandma's birthday party, and she's pretty tuckered out,’ Miranda said.
    • Victoria noted this uncharacteristic compliance, and asked, ‘Are you all tuckered out, sweetie?’
    • They fell asleep with their mouths open on the way home, innocent and tuckered out.
    • Eventually, he tuckered out and fell in a heap on a patch of button weed.
    • He was plumb tuckered out and very glad Charlie had talked him out of the trip to the lower pastures.
    Synonyms
    tired out, worn out, weary, dog-tired, bone-tired, bone-weary, ready to drop, on one's last legs, asleep on one's feet, drained, fatigued, enervated, debilitated, spent

Rhymes

chukka (US chukker), ducker, felucca, mucker, plucker, pucker, pukka, shucker, succour (US succor), sucker, trucker, yucca
 
 

Definition of tucker in US English:

tucker

nounˈtəkərˈtəkər
historical
  • A piece of lace or linen worn in or around the top of a bodice or as an insert at the front of a low-cut dress.

    See also one's best bib and tucker at bib
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The way he went after that plump sister in the lace tucker, was an outrage on the credulity of human nature.
    • The term tucker presumably developed because they were at first loosely tucked in to the bodice of the dress.
verbˈtəkərˈtəkər
[with object]usually be tuckered outNorth American informal
  • Exhaust; wear out.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • ‘Well, we are tuckered out and couldn't figure out which bus take,’ I said.
    • You can imagine that this leaves me somewhat tuckered out at the end of a given day.
    • Hearing the sound of snoring, she turned around and saw that Robert had fallen asleep, having tuckered himself out from all the excitement.
    • After half an hour of this, he was tuckered out and wandered off.
    • Others are tuckered out and spend the day resting.
    • ‘She had a big day at her great-grandma's birthday party, and she's pretty tuckered out,’ Miranda said.
    • Eventually, he tuckered out and fell in a heap on a patch of button weed.
    • Working women are more likely than their male colleagues to be tuckered out when they get home.
    • After the celebration, at midnight, everybody was all tuckered out and one by one, went off to bed.
    • Max, always tuckered out these days, fell asleep.
    • The two of them were so tuckered out it didn't take much.
    • He was plumb tuckered out and very glad Charlie had talked him out of the trip to the lower pastures.
    • At the two hour mark I was really getting pretty tuckered out, and began making silly mistakes.
    • By late Sunday afternoon, it had started to rain, and many of us were pretty tuckered out, so this work didn't proceed as rapidly as we had hoped.
    • Once he is tuckered out his opponent will take over and win easily.
    • I've got to get going, I'm a bit tuckered out from a rousing game of Bridge.
    • Toward the end of the movie, though, even they were worn out; plum tuckered by the endless repetition.
    • It was still early, but the boy was tuckered after the long day of excitement.
    • They fell asleep with their mouths open on the way home, innocent and tuckered out.
    • Victoria noted this uncharacteristic compliance, and asked, ‘Are you all tuckered out, sweetie?’
    Synonyms
    tired out, worn out, weary, dog-tired, bone-tired, bone-weary, ready to drop, on one's last legs, asleep on one's feet, drained, fatigued, enervated, debilitated, spent
 
 
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