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tuckpointed

tuckpointed is the simple past and past participle of tuckpoint.

Meaning of tuckpoint

Verb

tuckpoint (third-person singular simple present tuckpoints, present participle tuckpointing, simple past and past participle tuckpointed)

  1. (transitive) To employ the technique of tuck pointing upon.
    • In the gangway, a younger but equally white trio, wearing clothes that have to be from Land's End or Eddie Bauer, cheerfully tuckpoints brick, while inside others are sawing, stripping wood, hammering, mixing cement.1988 November 18, Bryan Miller, “Love Amid the Rubble”, in Chicago Reader

Questions about tuckpointed

What is tuckpointed the simple past and past participle of?
Tuckpointed is the simple past and past participle of tuckpoint.

Words near tuckpointed in the dictionary

  1. tucking up
  2. tuckings
  3. Tuckman
  4. Tuckombil
  5. tuckpoint
  6. tuckpointed
  7. tuckpointing
  8. tuckpoints
  9. tucks
  10. tucks away
  11. tucks in

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tuckpointed (page history and authors); tuckpoint (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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