Tuck In

Definition: Tuck In

Tuck In

Verb

1. Eat up; usually refers to a considerable quantity of food; "My son tucked in a whole pizza".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Tuck In

Food

Verb: eat, feed, fare, devour, swallow, take; gulp, bolt, snap; fall to; despatch, dispatch; discuss; take down, get down, gulp down; lay in, tuck in; lick, pick, peck; gormandize; bite, champ, munch, cranch, craunch, crunch, chew, masticate, nibble, gnaw, mumble.

Insertion

Obtrude; thrust in, stick in, ram in, stuff in, tuck in, press, in, drive in, pop in, whip in, drop in, put in; impact; empierce; (make a hole).

Location

Verb: place, situate, locate, localize, make a place for, put, lay, set, seat, station, lodge, quarter, post, install; house, stow; establish, fix, pin, root; graft; plant; (insert); shelve, pitch, camp, lay down, deposit, reposit; cradle; moor, tether, picket; pack, tuck in; embed, imbed; vest, invest in.

Books

• Tuck in Chaps: Traditional British Grub (reference)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books. Nip and Tuck in Toyland front cover. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Expression using "tuck in": bend under tuck in. Additional references.

Albanian

shikoj brenda (introspect), fut brenda (let in, take in, thrust in, thrust into). (various references)

Arabic 

‏إلتهم (bolt, consume, demolish, devour, eat, eat up, engorge, gobble, gorge, gormandize, guzzle, ingest, make a pig of oneself, munch, overeat, shovel, snap, stuff, swallow, swig, tuck, wolf), ‏أكل بنهم (cram, slop, stuff, tuck, wolf). (various references)

Bulgarian 

тъпча се (gorge, gormandize, guzzle), кльопачка (dub, grub, scoff, scran, tuck-out), напъхвам, подвивам (bend, clench, tuck, turn back). (various references)

Czech

zastrèit (bolt, hold in, insert, push down, slip, stick, tuck), zakasat, záložka (blurb, bookmark, cuff, flap, turnup), dùkladnì se najíst. (various references)

French

engouffrer, engloutir. (various references)

German

zulangen (help oneself), reinstecken, reinhauen, hineinstrecken (poke in, poke out). (various references)

Hungarian

elrak (Stow, to bottle, to put up, to set apart, to stow, to tuck away), betesz (insert, put in, to insert, to put in, to shut to, to take in), behajt (encash, levy, to call in, to double down, to exact, to fold back, to get in, to levy, to turn in, turn in). (various references)

Italian

rimboccare, abbuffarsi. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

包む (to be engulfed in, to be enveloped by, to conceal, to cover with, to do up, to dress in, to pack, to tuck in, to wrap up). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

くるむ (to be engulfed in, to be enveloped by, to conceal, to cover with, to do up, to dress in, to pack, to tuck in, to wrap up), つつむ (to be engulfed in, to be enveloped by, to conceal, to cover with, to do up, to dress in, to pack, to tuck in, to wrap up). (various references)

Manx

gow dty vee dy fondagh, filley stiagh (imply). (various references)

Pig Latin

ucktay inay

Portuguese

enfiar a beirada de. (various references)

Romanian

strânge picioarele, masã (avoirdupois, block, board, body, bulk, clump, congeries, cooking, crop, crowd, cuisine, dinner, dusty treat, feast, gross, lump, mass, meal, meat, multitude, people, repast, shoal, table, throng), mâncare (bait, bite, board, bread, cheer, chow, dish, eatable, eating, edibles, esculent, food, grub, meal, meat, mess, plate, repast, table, victuals), mânca cu poftã (play a good knife and fork), gustare (collation, gustation, lunch, refection, refreshment, relish, snack, tasting), a-şi strânge picioarele, îndoi (bend, bow, cockle, crease, crook, crouch, curve, dog's-ear, double, draw, ear-mark, fold, hunch, inflect, ply, redouble, stoop). (various references)

Russian 

жадно есть (gut, guttle, stodge), подгибать (bend, bend under, tuck). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

uvući (drag in, hold in, indent, pop in, pull in, retract, suck in, tuck), ugurati (push in, shove in, tuck), podvući (accentuate, point up, score under, tuck, underline, underscore), podvrnuti (tuck), navaliti (crowd, fall on, go for, pitch, pour in, roll, rush). (various references)

Spanish

remeter, meter (cause, dip, enclose, engage, Fay, inclose, insert, introduce, intrude, involve, jug, jump on, key, lay down, Lodge, log in, make, place, poke, put, put down, shove, sink, Stow, telescope, throw about, throw away, throw on, thrust, turf out, yank off), engullir (bolt, devour, engorge, gobble, gorge, gulp, guzzle, swallow), comer vorazmente (wolf), comer (comic, eat, eat away, feed, have dinner, lap up, live off, live on, lunch, luncheon, meal, partake of, take, take a meal, to eat, trifle, tuck, tuck away), a ello (go it), a comer (grub up). (various references)

Swedish

vika in, stoppa ner, stoppa in (tuck). (various references)

Turkish

tıkmak (coop, cram, put, shove, stuff, tuck, wedge), tıkınmak (batten, bolt, cram, engorge, gorge, gormandize, guzzle, ingurgitate, put away, shift, stodge, stuff, stuff oneself), tıkınma (cramming, glut, ingurgitation, tucking-in), tıka basa yemek (gorge, make a pig of oneself, stodge, stuff), tıka basa yeme, sokuvermek (pop, pop in, slip into, stick in), sokuşturmak (foist, push into, shove, slide in, work in), sokmak (bite, dig into, drag, drive, engraft, enter, immerse, implicate, ingraft, inject, insert, instil, instill, involve, land, let in, pitchfork, poke, put, put in, ram, send, sink into, slide in, spatchcock, stick, sting, strike, take into, thrust, tuck, work up), sarmak (bandage, begird, beset, bind, bundle, cincture, clothe, coat, cocoon, coil, coil up, compass, do up, embrace, encircle, enclasp, encompass, enfold, enlace, entwine, entwist, envelop, enwrap, fold, fold up, furl, gird, hem about, hem around, hem in, infold, intwine, invest, involve, lap, overgrow, pack, reel, reel up, robe, roll, roll up, sheet, smother in, stalk, strap, surround, swaddle, swathe, tuck up, twine, twist, whirl, wind, wind up, wrap, wrap up), kıvırmak (angle, bend, contort, Crimp, crisp, crook, curl, curl up, do successfully, drape, enfold, entwine, entwist, fold, fold down, frill, frizz, frizzle, gauffer, goffer, gopher, handle, have a command of, inflect, intwine, manage, meander, squirm, squirm out of, tuck, tuck up, turn back, turn down, twist, wind, wind up), içeri sokmak (drive in, introduce, let in, put in). (various references)

Ukrainian

робити складки (crease, crimple, ruck, ruckle), давитися (gag, gulp). (various references)

Misspellings

"Tuck In" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: tuckin. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: cutin, tunic.

-2 letters: cunt, knit, nick, tick, tuck, unci, unit.

-3 letters: cut, ick, ink, kin, kit, nit, nut, tic, tin, tui, tun.

-4 letters: in, it, nu, ti, un, ut.

+1 letter: nutpick, tucking, unstick.

+2 letters: mutchkin, nutpicks, trucking, unsticks.

+3 letters: bucketing, chunkiest, clunkiest, mutchkins, truckings, truckline, truckling, tuckering, untacking, untucking.

+4 letters: cuckoopint, knuckliest, outcooking, outkicking, outrocking, trucklines, undertrick, unluckiest, unstacking, unsticking.

+5 letters: computernik, countersink, cuckoopints, huckstering, outslicking, outtricking, undertricks.