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What (who) is tuck - definition
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Tucks; Tuck (disambiguation); Tucks (disambiguation)
tuck
v. (d; tr.) to tuck into (to tuck a child into bed; he tucked his shirt into his trousers)
tuck
(tucks, tucking, tucked)
1.
If you tuck something somewhere, you put it there so that it is safe, comfortable, or neat.
He tried to tuck his flapping shirt inside his trousers...
She found a rose tucked under the windscreen wiper of her car one morning.
VERB: V n prep, V-ed
2.
You can use tuck to refer to a form of plastic surgery which involves reducing the size of a part of someone's body.
She'd undergone 13 operations, including a tummy tuck.
N-COUNT: usu supp N
tuck
I. n.
1.
Small sword, rapier, bilbo.
2.
Tuck-net.
3.
Pull, lugging.
4.
Horizontal fold, plait.
II. v. a.
1.
Pack, stow, fold under, press together.
2.
Press in bed-clothes, wrap, infold.
Examples of use of tuck
1. Tuck said he found the tape in the desert, and his lawyer has said Tuck had no involvement with Stiles.
2. Tuck & Patti –– namely, Tuck Andress and Patti Cathcart –– are a couple that has been making music together for over 25 years...
3. Boruchowitz said investigators don‘t think Tuck made the tape.
4. "I said to him, ‘Okay, tuck yourself close to me.
5. Investigators don‘t think Tuck made the tape, Boruchowitz said.