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Definition of tucker job in English: tucker jobnoun Australian dated, informal A poorly paid job. if a man does find a workable reef it's likely to be only a tucker job Example sentencesExamples - I said that £500 a year was only a tucker job.
- It is only a tucker job at best, and now I believe it is all up with us, or will be in a short time.
- Oh, that was only a tucker job anyway
- If a bootless man happens along, as is sometimes the case in Victoria, he is offered a tucker job.
- Life to these folk is mostly a tucker job.
Origin Late 19th century: from the notion that the wage paid is enough to buy food only. |