Definitions for tucks

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tucks tuck

Spelling: [tuhk]

IPA: /tʌk/

Tucks is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 47 anagrams from letters in tucks (ckstu).

Definitions for tucks

noun

1. something tucked or folded in.
2. Sewing. a fold, or one of a series of folds, made by doubling cloth upon itself and stitching parallel with the edge of the fold, used for decoration or for shortening or fitting a garment.
3. Diving, Gymnastics. a body position in which the head is lowered and the thighs held against the chest with the knees bent and the arms locked around the shins. Compare layout (def 10), pike7 .
4. Skiing. a crouch in which the ski poles are held close to the chest, extending back under the arms and parallel to the ground, as to maximize speed downhill.
5. Informal. a plastic surgery operation:
6. Nautical. the part of a vessel where the after ends of the outside planking or plating unite at the sternpost.
7. (in tying knots) the operation of passing one strand above or below another.
8. British Slang. food.
9. tuxedo.
10. a rapier or estoc.
11. a drumbeat or the sound of one beat on a drum.

Verb phrases

1. tuck into, to eat with gusto:

verb (used with object)

1. to put into a small, close, or concealing place:
2. to thrust in the loose end or edge of (a garment, covering, etc.) so as to hold closely in place (usually followed by in, up, under, etc.):
3. to cover snugly in or as if in this manner:
4. to pull up into a fold or folds; draw up into a folded arrangement (usually followed by in, up, etc.):
5. Needlework. to sew tucks in.
6. to pass (a strand) above or below another one.
7. Informal. to eat or drink (usually followed by in, away, etc.):

verb (used without object)

1. to draw together; contract; pucker.
2. Needlework. to make tucks.
3. to fit securely or snugly:

Origin of tucks

before 900; Middle English t(o)uken to stretch (cloth), torment, Old English tūcian to torment; akin to Middle Low German tucken to tug, German zucken to jerk. See tow

Examples for tucks

She will then, at a time of her choosing, tuck it, say, into my carry-on bag just before I leave on a research trip.

The skirt was long enough to tuck around her baby's feet when she carried it.

Mount Saint Vincent and tuck provided me with both an excellent education and a group of lifelong friends.

You can tuck up the sleeves, and we will catch crayfishes again.

The hair is more reddish these days, and he likes to tuck under a black calf-skin hat.

Following college, I was encouraged to apply to The tuck School of Business at Dartmouth.

Let it go and tuck in your handkerchief like the rest of us.

When I tuck him up, he grabbed me round the neck and dug his little face into mine.

Why, tuck, dost thou not know of my ill happening with my father's steward?

You wrap the fabric around yourself once, tuck the top into your half-slip, fold a few pleats, and tuck them into the same slip.