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tuck into

tuck into verb: to eat, especially with gusto.

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To eat, especially with gusto.
    • If you'll just let little Wackford tuck into something fat, I'll be obliged to you.1839, Charles Dickens, chapter 39, in Nicholas Nickleby
    • Well-heeled tourists tuck into French cuisine at Cardin's elegant new Maxim's de Pékin.1983 November 28, Pico Iyer, “Battling "Spiritual Pollution"”, in Time
  2. (transitive) To place or secure someone or something into a snug location, with items being pushed, folded, or concealed in a tight space.

Forms of tuck into

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

Questions about tuck into

What does tuck into mean?
Tuck into means to eat, especially with gusto.
What part of speech is tuck into?
Tuck into is a verb.
What is the past tense of tuck into?
The past tense of tuck into is tucked into.

Words near tuck into in the dictionary

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

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