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tuck in

tuck in verb: to pull the blankets or duvet up over (someone in bed); to put (someone) to bed.

Verb (1)

tuck in (third-person singular simple present tucks in, present participle tucking in, simple past and past participle tucked in)

  1. (transitive) To pull the blankets or duvet up over (someone in bed); to put (someone) to bed.
    • She tucked in her young son and turned out the light.
  2. (intransitive) To pull the blankets or duvet up over oneself; to get in bed.
    • Life on the island feels great! When the sun rises, I wakey-wakey, and when it sets, I tuck in fer snoozer-time! Perfect fer a simple bloke like me, right?2004, Intelligent Systems, translated by Nintendo of America, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Nintendo, GameCube
    • Always my man, always. Have a peaceful night when you tuck in.2025 February 27, @PhanTom_X777X, Twitter
  3. (transitive) To push (the fabric at the bottom of a shirt) under the pants.
  4. To acquire something tiny
  5. (transitive) To score from with a casual motion
    • And although Steven Fletcher cut the deficit for Wolves, tucking in Stephen Hunt's cross, the home side held on.2011 September 24, Arindam Rej, “Liverpool 2 - 1 Wolverhampton”, in BBC Sport
  6. To place in a small space.
    • "Tuck it in that corner."
    • Since then we have had the opportunity to travel in them and were much impressed by the internal styling and comfort of the seating (with the minor exception of the single seats which have been tucked in longitudinally alongside some of the entrance vestibules and which are so cramped that only the...1960 December, “The Glasgow Suburban Electrification is opened”, in Trains Illustrated, page 715

Verb (2)

tuck in (third-person singular simple present tucks in, present participle tucking in, simple past and past participle tucked in)

  1. (intransitive) To eat heartily.
    • Tuck in, before the food goes cold.
    • Still, he tucked in handsomely to bacon and tomato on fried bread, felicitating himself on the considered wisdom of his arrival in the character of guest to Bradly.1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 74

tuck in meaning in Marathi, Malayalam and Kannada

tuck in in Marathi

to tuck in
खोचणे khocṇe

tuck in in Malayalam

to tuck in; to place between things
തിരുകുക tirukuka

tuck in in Kannada

ಕುತ್ತು

Forms of tuck in

third-person singular presenttucks in
present participletucking in
past participletucked in
pasttucked in

Origin of tuck in

See tuck (1).

See tuck (4).

Questions about tuck in

What does tuck in mean?
Tuck in means to pull the blankets or duvet up over (someone in bed); to put (someone) to bed.
What is tuck in in Marathi?
Tuck in in Marathi is खोचणे (khocṇe). See Tuck in meaning in Marathi.
What part of speech is tuck in?
Tuck in is a verb.
What is the past tense of tuck in?
The past tense of tuck in is tucked in.

Words near tuck in in the dictionary

  1. tuchuses
  2. tuck
  3. tuck away
  4. tuck box
  5. tuck boxes
  6. tuck in
  7. tuck into
  8. tuck out
  9. tuck pointing
  10. tuck shop
  11. tuck shop arm

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: tuck in (page history and authors); खोचणे (Marathi) (page history and authors); തിരുകുക (Malayalam) (page history and authors); tuck in (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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