Definition of "tuck"

tuck¹

/tʌk/

verb
third-person singular simple present tucks, present participle tucking, simple past and past participle tucked
1. (transitive) To pull or gather up (an item of fabric). [From 14thc.]
2. (transitive) To push into a snug position; to place somewhere safe, or handy, or somewhat hidden.
  Quotations
  It was flood-tide along Fifth Avenue; motor, brougham, and victoria swept by on the glittering current; pretty women glanced out from limousine and tonneau; young men of his own type, silk-hatted, frock-coated, the crooks of their walking sticks tucked up under their left arms, passed on the Park side.
  1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, “His Own People”, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, page 6
3. (intransitive, often with "in" or "into") To eat; to consume.
4. (ergative) To fit neatly.
5. To curl into a ball; to fold up and hold one's legs.
6. To sew folds; to make a tuck or tucks in.
7. To full, as cloth.
8. (LGBT, of a drag queen, trans woman, etc.) To conceal one’s penis and testicles, as with a gaff or by fastening them down with adhesive tape.
9. (when playing scales on piano keys) To keep the thumb in position while moving the rest of the hand over it to continue playing keys that are outside the thumb.
10. (aviation) Ellipsis of Mach tuck.
noun
plural tucks
1. An act of tucking; a pleat or fold. [From late 14thC.]
2. (sewing) A fold in fabric that has been stitched in place from end to end, as to reduce the overall dimension of the fabric piece.
3. A curled position.
4. (medicine, surgery) A plastic surgery technique to remove excess skin.
5. (music, piano, when playing scales on piano keys) The act of keeping the thumb in position while moving the rest of the hand over it to continue playing keys that are outside the thumb.
6. (diving) A curled position, with the shins held towards the body.
7. (nautical) The afterpart of a ship, immediately under the stern or counter, where the ends of the bottom planks are collected and terminate by the tuck-rail.

tuck²

/tʌk/

noun
plural tucks
1. (archaic) A rapier, a sword.
  Quotations
  […] with force he labour'd / To free's blade from retentive scabbard; / And after many a painful pluck, / From rusty durance he bail'd tuck […]
  1662, [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge: University Press, 1905, canto 2
  [...] dismount thy tuck, be yare in thy preparation, for thy assailant is quick, skilful, and deadly. [...]
  c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act III, scene i]
  He wore large hose, […] and a tuck, as it was then called, or rapier, of tremendous length.
  1826, [Walter Scott], Woodstock; Or, The Cavalier. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green

tuck³

/tʌk/

noun
plural tucks
1. The beat of a drum.

tuck⁴

/tʌk/

noun
uncountable
1. (Britain, dated, school slang, India) Food, especially snack food.

Definition of "tuck"

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