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  1. transitive verb To make one or more folds in: tucked the pleats before sewing the hem.
  2. transitive verb To gather up and fold, thrust, or turn in so as to secure or confine: She tucked her scarf into her blouse.
  3. transitive verb To put in a snug spot.
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  • Maybe a chin tuck, a new nose, and one of those new micro face lifts. —  ConsenttoKill
  • Not after the tummy tuck, the boob job and butt lift. —  Destroyer 107: Feast or Famine
  • Manhattan tummy tuck - Tummy tuck is a cosmetic surgery procedure. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
  • Did Lupe put him down for a tuck, or no tuck? starting to unravel here at the end of the half. what's the point of all these MSU fouls if Conn ain't going to make the FTs? —  The Big Lead
  • Home fitness programs are designed to use a full routine of dance moves to tilt, tuck, and tighten your body into the shape it was meant to be in. —  xml's Blinklist.com
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  1. Middle English tukken, possibly from Middle Low German or Middle Dutch tocken, tucken.
  2. From Middle English tukken, to beat a drum, from Old North French toquer, to strike, from Vulgar Latin *toccāre.
  3. Perhaps from French dialectal étoc, from Old French estoc, of Germanic origin.
  4. Origin unknown.

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  1. from Middle English tucken, tukken, also touken; partly from Anglo-Saxon tucian, pull, pluck, full (cloth); partly from Middle Low German tucken, Low German tukken, tokken, pull up, draw up, tuck up, also entice, Low German also tuken, wrinkle, as a badly made garment, =Middle Dutch tocken, entice, =Old High German zucchen, zukken, Middle High German G. zucken, zücken, draw in, draw together, shrug, etc.; a secondary form of the verb represented by Anglo-Saxon teón (preterit teāh, plural tugon) =Old Saxon tiohan =Middle Low German tien, tēn, Low German teën =Old High German ziohen, Middle High German G. ziehen =Gothic (Moesogothic) tiuhan, draw: see tee, and cf. tow, tug, tick, touch. Hence tucker, tucker.
  2. from tuck, v.
  3. from Old French estoc, a rapier, also the stock of a tree, also a thrust (see tuck), =Italian stocco, a truncheon, short sword, tuck: see stock, stuck. For the form tuck, from Old French estoc, cf. ticket, from Old French *estiquet, etiquet.
  4. from Middle English tuk (Scots tuick, touk), from Old French estoc, a thrust, =Old Italian tocco, a knock, stroke, as on a bell, peal of a bell; cf. tuck, tucket, and tick.
  5. from tuck, n.
 

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