tucker
UK/ˈtʌkə/US/ˈtʌkɚ/
tucker verb: to tire out or exhaust a person or animal.
Verb
tucker (third-person singular simple present tuckers, present participle tuckering, simple past and past participle tuckered)
- To tire out or exhaust a person or animal.
- Man, I’m so tuckered from my run today.
Noun (1)
tucker (countable and uncountable, plural tuckers)
- One who or that which tucks.
- Discrimination. Firm, after having had a long controversy with its tuckers, laid off the whole tucking department for a week. Union maintained it was a clear case cf discrimination against the tuckers on account of the recent controversy.
Determination:
Complaint of the union was sustained. Tuckers...1914, US Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Conciliation, Arbitration, and Sanitation in the Dress and Waist Industry of New York City, Bulletin of the US Bureau of Labor Statistics...
- Discrimination. Firm, after having had a long controversy with its tuckers, laid off the whole tucking department for a week. Union maintained it was a clear case cf discrimination against the tuckers on account of the recent controversy.
- Food; tuck.
- By the fire the billies were boiling, the tucker of both camps spread out on tarpaulins.1937, Ion L. Idriess, Over the Range, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, published 1947, page 10
- Work that scarcely yields a living wage.
Noun (2)
tucker (plural tuckers)
- Lace or a piece of cloth in the neckline of a dress.
- “And, ma′am,” he continued, “the laundress tells me some of the girls have two clean tuckers in the week: it is too much; the rules limit them to one.”
“I think I can explain that circumstance, sir. Agnes and Catherine Johnstone were invited to take tea with some friends at Lowton last Thursday...1847, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, unnumbered page - “Now let us go home, and never mind Aunt March to-day. We can run down there any time, and it′s really a pity to trail through the dust in our best bibs and tuckers, when we are tired and cross.”1869, Louisa May Alcott, Good Wives, published 1903, page 57
- “And, ma′am,” he continued, “the laundress tells me some of the girls have two clean tuckers in the week: it is too much; the rules limit them to one.”
- A fuller; one who fulls cloth.
Proper noun capitalized: Tucker
Tucker (countable and uncountable, plural Tuckers)
- A south-western English surname originating as an occupation; equivalent to Fuller.
- A male given name transferred from the surname, of modern usage.
- Jackson Sparks and his brother, Tucker, were both struck.2022 October 26, Christina Zdanowicz, Claudia Dominguez, Lauren M. Johnson, Sara Smart, “The Waukesha victims included an 8-year-old boy, a loving grandmother and a woman excited to make her debut in...
- Tucker Carlson (also a jacket and tie guy) picked up on the hoo-ha on his Fox News show, calling the hoodie-jacket combination a “cry for help” and inviting Roger Stone, the disgraced former political operative and author of his own “Best and Worst dressed List,” to comment.2023 February 20, Vanessa Friedman, “Don Lemon, Nikki Haley and the Lessons of a Hoodie”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 24 Feb 2023
- An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Jefferson County, Arkansas.
- A city in DeKalb County, Georgia.
- In Tucker, another Atlanta suburb, an undocumented man attending church was arrested after ICE agents arrived, pastor Luis Ortiz told CNN. He said he was in the middle of his sermon when he noticed a couple of members of his church escort the man out.2025 January 26, Priscilla Alvarez, Rosa Flores, “Trump administration launches nationwide immigration enforcement blitz”, in CNN, archived from the original on 09 Mar 2025
- A census-designated place in Neshoba County, Mississippi.
- An extinct town in Ripley County, Missouri.
- A ghost town in Utah County, Utah.
Examples of tucker in a sentence
- After a day of hauling concrete, she was pretty well tuckered out.
- The walk tuckered him out so much he had to take a nap.
- Tucker and Linda are one of the Internet’s favourite doggo-hooman duo.
Forms of tucker
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | tuckers |
| present participle | tuckering |
| past participle | tuckered |
| past | tuckered |
| Noun | |
| plural | tuckers |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Tuckers |
Origin of tucker
From tuck + -er.
Inherited from Middle English tukere (“one who dresses or finishes cloth”).
Words formed from tucker
- tucker out
- Dan Tucker
- Tucker County
- tuckerization
- Tuckerton
- bush tucker
- dog tucker
- tuckerbag
- tuckerbox
- tucker claim
- tucker fucker
- tuckerless
- tucker money
Phrases with tucker
Words that rhyme with tucker
Questions about tucker
- What does tucker mean?
- Tucker means to tire out or exhaust a person or animal.
- What part of speech is tucker?
- Tucker can be a verb, a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce tucker?
- Tucker is pronounced /ˈtʌkə/ (UK).
- What is the past tense of tucker?
- The past tense of tucker is tuckered.
Words near tucker in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: tucker (page history and authors); Tucker (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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