tucker

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  1. noun One that tucks, especially an attachment on a sewing machine for making tucks.
  2. noun A piece of linen or frill of lace formerly worn by women around the neck and shoulders.
  3. transitive verb Informal To make weary; exhaust.

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  • If I can snag a truffle for my tucker bag you will live vicariously no longer … —  Abstract Gourmet
  • "This is the one time of the year that you can wear your best bib and tucker," Harris mused. —  The Rolla Daily News Homepage RSS
  • This essay explores how this conundrum is resolved in quantum electrodynamics. algorithm bohm coding computation conic constraint continous control convex error estimate estimation field hidden information kalman kuhn-tucker least legendre manual matlab matrices measurement model neural nmf noise observation ocaml optimization pca popular probability propagation qm quantum relativity sift space sparse sqares state statistic string text theory thermodynamic time tv variable vim visualization zeno —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • Scott, page Chicken John and let's ... john tucker: i need instructions and that is really cool what you did —  Laughing Squid
  • The way he went after that plump sister in the lace tucker was an outrage on the credulity of human nature. —  A Christmas Carol
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Etymologies (5)

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  1. Perhaps from tuck1.

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  1. from Middle English *tucker, tokker, touker, towker, tuker, toucher, a fuller, from tuken, from Anglo-Saxon tucian, pluck, pull, tease, full: see tuck.
  2. from tuck + -er.
  3. Appar, from tucker, the phrase tucker out being apparently equivalent to ravel out.
  4. from tucker, v.
 

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