tucker

== English == === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈtʌkə/, [ˈtʰʌkə] (General American) IPA(key): /ˈtʌkɚ/, [ˈtʰʌkɚ] Homophone: Tucker Rhymes: -ʌkə(ɹ) === Etymology 1 === From tuck +‎ -er. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term. ==== Verb ==== tucker (third-person singular simple present tuckers, present participle tuckering, simple past and past participle tuckered) (slang) To tire out or exhaust a person or animal. Man, I’m so tuckered from my run today. ===== Derived terms ===== tucker out ===== Translations ===== ==== Noun ==== tucker (countable and uncountable, plural tuckers) (countable) One who or that which tucks. 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, No. 145, page 108, Nature of Grievance: 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 were paid the amount of money they were deprived of through being discriminated against, $158.90. (uncountable, colloquial, Australia, New Zealand) Food; tuck. (slang, dated) Work that scarcely yields a living wage. ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Translations ===== ==== See also ==== best bib and tucker tucker fucker === Etymology 2 === From Middle English tokker (“one who dresses or finishes cloth”). ==== Noun ==== tucker (plural tuckers) (countable) Lace or a piece of cloth in the neckline of a dress. (obsolete) A fuller; one who fulls cloth. === Anagrams === retuck