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tucking out

tucking out is the present participle and gerund of tuck out.

Meaning of tuck out

Verb

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

  1. (archaic, intransitive, Old West) to feast
    • We were tucking out until nightfall.
  2. (intransitive) to dangle free; to be untucked
    • His shirt tucked out between his legs.
  3. (Philippines, transitive) to untuck clothes (such as a shirt or topcloths)
    • He tucked out his polo (dress shirt) but not his undershirt.

Questions about tucking out

What is tucking out the present participle and gerund of?
Tucking out is the present participle and gerund of tuck out.

Words near tucking out in the dictionary

  1. Tucki Tucki
  2. tucking
  3. tucking away
  4. tucking in
  5. tucking into
  6. tucking out
  7. tucking up
  8. tuckings
  9. Tuckman
  10. Tuckombil
  11. tuckpoint

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tucking out (page history and authors); tuck out (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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