Tuck

Definition: Tuck

Tuck

Noun

1. A narrow flattened pleat or fold that is stitched in place.

Verb

1. Fit snugly into.

2. Pull up or draw into a fold; "tuck the sheets".

3. Make a tuck or several folds in; "tuck the fabric".

4. Draw fabric together and sew it tightly.

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

Date "tuck" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

Transportation

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Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Tuck

Arms

Sword, saber, broadsword, cutlass, falchion, scimitar, cimeter, brand, whinyard, bilbo, glaive, glave, rapier, skean, Toledo, Ferrara, tuck, claymore, adaga, baselard, Lochaber ax, skean dhu, creese, kris, dagger, dirk, banger, poniard, stiletto, stylet, dudgeon, bayonet; sword-bayonet, sword-stick; side arms, foil, blade, steel; ax, bill; pole-ax, battle-ax; gisarme, halberd, partisan, tomahawk, bowie knife; ataghan, attaghan, yataghan; yatacban; assagai, assegai; good sword, trusty sword, naked sword; cold steel.

Fold

Verb: fold, double, plicate, plait, crease, wrinkle, crinkle, crankle, curl, cockle up, cocker, rimple, rumple, flute,frizzle, frounce, rivel, twill, corrugate, ruffle, crimple, crumple, pucker; turn down, double down, down under; tuck, ruck, hem, gather.

Noun: fold, plicature, plait, pleat,ply, crease; tuck, gather; flexion, flexure, joint, elbow, double, doubling, duplicature, gather, wrinkle, rimple, crinkle, crankle, crumple, rumple, rivel, ruck, ruffle, dog's ear, corrugation, frounce, flounce, lapel; pucker, crow's feet; plication.

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.

Crosswords: Tuck

Mommy loves Martin because he is real, and when I am real Mommy's going to read to me and tuck me in my bed and sing to me and listen to what I say and she will cuddle with me and tell me every day a hundred times a day that she loves me! (Artificial Intelligence: AI; writing credit: Ian Watson)

All right, everybody tuck your pants into your socks! (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

Tuck and roll woosie! (Titus; writing credit: Karl-Heinz K�fer)

In that case, how would you like me to tuck you up? (The Avengers; writing credit: Paul Monash)

You tuck a bed in on both sides? (Gilmore Girls; writing credit: Povl Erik Carstensen; Sebastian Dorset)

I wouldn't tuck you in and turn the nightlight out (You Should've Told Me; performing artist: Kelly Price)

I'll be the one to tuck you in at night (Follow Me; performing artist: Uncle Kracker)

Tuck Me In (1970)

Nip and Tuck (1923)

Tuck Everlasting (2002)

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Books

• Antiqueman's Diary: The Memoirs of Fred Bishop Tuck (reference)

• Tuck Everlasting Study Guide (reference)

• Tuck para siempre (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Daniel Boone: Ken Tuck E (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Best of Tuck & Patti (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Consumer Goods

• Goldblatt Trowel Trade Tools GB01679 6-3/4" x 1/4" Tuck Pointing Trowel (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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

Boar's Tuck, Rock Springs Field Office. Credit: Jerry Sintz.

Henry Tuck. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Crewmen swabbing out her XI-inch Dahlgren muzzle-loading gun, during drills at the New York Navy Yard, 1898. USS New Orleans is in the background. The original photograph was published on a color-tinted postcard by Raphael Tuck & Sons. Credit: NAVY.

When it comes to the lion business between Ben -- Jim, it's nip and tuck. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

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

Health

Tuck your shirt into your pants. (references)

Tuck pant legs into socks or boots and tuck shirt into pants. (references)

If you are not sleeping in an area that is well screened or air-conditioned, use a bed net and tuck it under your mattress. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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

Expressions using "tuck": bend under tuck in ♦ nip and tuck ♦ tuck away ♦ tuck in ♦ tuck in! ♦ tuck into ♦ tuck into a meal ♦ tuck oneself up ♦ tuck pointing ♦ tuck shop ♦ tuck smb. up ♦ tuck the ball away ♦ tuck under ♦ tuck up ♦ tuck up one's legs. Additional references.

Beginning with "tuck": tuck-away, tuck-box, tuck-boxes, Tuck-brown, tuck-in, tuck-net, tuck-out, tuck-rolled, tuck-shop, tuck-up.

Ending with "tuck": Powell-tuck.

Albanian

palosje (fillister, folding, furl), përputh (adapt, agree), fut (accept, cram into, drive, drive in, embed, engrain, enter, establish, foot, hide, insert, intercalate, interpolate, introduce, launch, let in, mix in, move in, number, plunge, poke, pour into, put, put in the picture, put smb. wise to smth., set, speak, stick into, stock up, stuff, submerge, take on, thrust, usher in), bëj palosje. (various references)

Arabic 

‏زمة, ‏دس (foist, insinuate, insinuation, interpolate, interpolation, machinate, palm off, put into, work in), ‏رفع مشمرا, ‏ثنى (bend, deter, dissuade, drape, flex, fold, folding, goffer, hire, inflect, lap, pat, pleat, pliable, praise, pucker, replicate, tribute), ‏ثنية (flection, fold, goffer, plait, pleat, ply, ruck, shirring), ‏أكل بنهم (cram, slop, stuff, tuck in, wolf), ‏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 in, wolf), ‏دخل طرف, ‏زم (purse, tighten), ‏كف (hand, leave off, let up, palm, roll up, thwack), ‏غطى (cap, coat, cover, encase, face, invest, line, litter, mantle, mask, mat, pall, paper, plaster, roof, sheathe, sheet, shield, smolder, smoulder, wrap), ‏وضع (accentuate, affix, apply, bestow, bin, clap, conjuncture, dab, design, do, emplacement, estate, frame, install, job, lay, lay down, lay out, manner, outline, perch, place, placement, plant, posit, position, positioning, posture, put, put down, put up, rank, return, set, set back, situation, status, stick down, stuff, utter, writing), ‏قرع الطبول (rataplan, roll, rolling, rub a dub), ‏نشاط (action, activity, alacrity, bang, bounce, energy, forcefulness, ginger, go, kick, lift, liveliness, mettle, momentum, movement, pep, promptitude, prosperity, pursuit, spirit, spunk, stir, strenuousness, verve, vigor, vigour, vim, virility, zip), ‏مأدبة (banquet, feast, function, junket, repast, spread), ‏كسر (breach, break, breakage, breaking, crash, crush, defeat, double, fold, fraction, fracture, fracturing, infringe, pleat, rout, shatter, shattering, smash, smashing, vanquish, violate), ‏طية (flexure, fold, gather, lap, lappet, plait, plica, queue, recess, wrap). (various references)

Bulgarian 

лакомства, подвивам (bend, clench, tuck in, turn back), подвирам (shove), подгъвам (bend under, bend under tuck in, fold, hem, lap), поръбвам (hem, overcast), прегъвка, биене на барабан (drumbeat, ruffle), думкане на барабан, баста, сила (definition, drive, dynamism, effect, energy, feck, fiber, fibre, flush, force, forcefulness, forte, goodness, hardness, impetus, intension, intensity, inwardness, kick, lustiness, medium, might, mightiness, muscle, muscularity, nerve, pith, potency, power, prowess, punch, sinews, snap, stamina, strength, stringency, tenacity, thews, vehemence, verve, vigor, vigour, vim, vinegar, violence, virility, virtue, virulence, vis, volume, zap, zip), завивам (blanket, swing, turn, turn down, turn off, wrap), загръщам (enfold, envelop, enwrap, involve, lap, snuggle, wrap), закътвам (ensconce, shelter), звук от думкане на барабан, звук от биене на барабан, навивам (coil, curl, expend, fake, furl, lap, quill, roll, roll up, scroll, set, take up, tuck up, wind, wind up), неща за ядене, бастичка. (various references)

Chinese 

褶裥, 掖 , �" 進 . (various references)

Czech

zdrhnout, zastrèit (bolt, hold in, insert, push down, slip, stick, tuck in), záševek (dart), vecpat (crib, crush, jam), sámek, podkasat (pin up, tuck up), přivázat (attach, bind, fasten, lash down, secure, stake, tether, tie up), paspulka, nabrat (draw, gather, scoop up, take up), jídlo (chop suey, dish, feed, food, meal, nurture, repast, sustenance, tack, victual, victuals). (various references)

Danish

trimændring ved lydhastighed. (various references)

Dutch

veranderen van trim. (various references)

Farsi 

یاجمع کردن انتهای طناب , چین دادن یاقراردادن , نیرو (Blood, Brawn, Breath, Energy, Force, Gut, Leverage, Might, Pep, Power, Strength, Thrust, Vigor, Vim, Vis, Zip), توگذاری , توگذاشتن , تاه (Plait, Plica, Ply), زور (Dint, Energy, Hustle, Might, Power, Push, Strain, Strength, Stunt, Thrust, Vigor, Vim, Violence, Vis, Vivacity, Zing, Zip), روحیه (Mentality, Moral, Morale, Spirit), شیرینی مربا, شمشیرنازک , شدت زومندی , درجای دنج قرارگرفتن چین , بالازنی , بالازدگی . (various references)

Finnish

poimuttaa (drape, gather, pleat), poimu (fold, gather, pleat), laskos (box-pleat, fold, pleat). (various references)

French

replier (turn back, turn down), remplir, rempli, remonter (turn up), rataplan, ranger, présenter accident de stabilité, mettre, force, entrer (turn in), dynamisme, couvrir, cacher, boustifaille, boulotter. (various references)

German

stecken (baton, be, be hiding, be pinned, be sticking, be stuck, cane, case, devote, enter, insert, jack in, lay down, pick, pin, pin up, place, plant, plug, plunge, poke, pop, put, put down, put in, put up, set, slot, stab, stick, sting, thrust), saum (border, bottom, brim, brink, edge, edging, fringe, hem, hemline, rim, seam), falte (crease, Crinkle, fold, furrow, line, plait, pleat, ruck, wrinkle), biesen steppen, biese (braid). (various references)

Greek 

πιέτα (frill, pleat), πτυχή (crease, crumple, fold, plait, ply, pucker, rimple, ruck, ruffle). (various references)

Hebrew 

לתחוב (insert, jab, poke, ram, thrust), לקפל (fold, fold up, lap, pleat), ל�"פשיל, קפל (fold, plait, pleat), חפת (fold, pocket). (various references)

Hungarian

szegély ruhán, rakás (batch, charging, clump, conglomerate, heap, heaps of, lump, pack, parcel, passel, pile, stack), berak (embed, inlay, plait, stevedore, to damascene, to inlay, to kilt, to pleat, to stevedore, to stow, to tuck away). (various references)

Indonesian

menyingsingkan. (various references)

Italian

piegare (bend, bow, crook, diffract, droop, duck, flex, fold, give in, incline, inflect, lap, subdue, tend, tilt, turn, yield), piega (bends, crease, Crinkle, fold, inclines, plait, pleat, ply, turn, twist, wrinkle), ondeggiare (flutter, hesitate, ripple, rock, roll, sway, undulate, wave, waver), mettere (cause, charge, get, install, lay down, locate, place, plant, pop, put, put down, put in, put on, set, set up, situate, stand, take, to put, wear), infilare (enfilade, insert, penetrate, plug, poke, pop, run through, slip, slip on, squeeze, stick, string, thread, thread one's way, transfix), fare pieghe, dolce (bland, cake, dessert, fresh, gentle, Goody, honeyed, luscious, mild, pudding, smooth, soft, sweet, sweetness, tender, trifle), cacciare (chase, chase away, dispelled, drive away, get to, Hunt, oust, plug, plunge, poke, prey, put, send down, shoot, stick, take out, throw out). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

縫い込み . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ぬい�"み. (various references)

Korean 

� �� � (Energetic, Energetical, Energies, Energy). (various references)

Manx

walkey (tucking), walkal (fulling, stroll, to the full, waulk, waulk cloth), cryslaghey (tucking), cryslagh, bee naightee (dainty). (various references)

Pig Latin

ucktay

Portuguese

rufar de tambor, prega (cockle, crumple, double, flute, gather, kink, pleat, ply, pucker, ripple, ruck, ruckle, shir, shirr, wrinkle), pastéis (pastry), meter (incase, insert, lay down, mix up, place, put, put down, put in, slip, stick, stuff, to put), guardar (bestow, bin, bosom, coffer, coffin, conserve, defend, guard, keep, lay up, look after, maintain, observe, preserve, protect, put, put away, reserve, retain, save, shield, stow, tend, watch over), fazer pregas, esconder (bescreen, cache, conceal, dissemble, dodge, ensconce, enshroud, hide, hold back, hugger-mugger, occult, pocket, screen, secrete, stash, suppress), doces (candies, confectionery, pastry, sweetmeats, sweet-shop, sweet-stuff), comprimir (astringe, compact, compress, constrict, jam, oppress, pack, pinch, press, pump up, retrench, screw, squeeze, tighten, wring), comida (board, cheer, dietary, eating, fare, food, meal, peck, prog, scoff, tucker), cabecear (head, niddle-noddle, nid-nod), botar para dentro, bolos (cakes), arregaçar (roll up). (various references)

Romanian

vârî (Bob, creep, crib, dab, dig, dip, drive, duck, engraft in, immerse, impress, introduce, involve, jab, Lodge, pick, poke, pull up, put in, stab, stick, Stow, stuff, thrust), plisa (Crimp, Crinkle, draw, enfold, fold, frill, full, goffer, pleat, ruffle), face cute la rochie, bãga (Bob, drive, immerse, impress, insert, interject, introduce, intrude, invest, involve, jab, land, Lodge, put in, stick, Stow, stuff, thrust), ascunde (cloak, conceal, Cork, cover, curtain, cushion, disguise, dissemble, ensconce, enwrap, hide, hood, hugger mugger, keep away, keep back, mask, put away, put by, screen, secrete, shroud, smooth, tuck away, veil, wrap), înveli (case, cover, encase, enfold, enshroud, envelop, enwrap, fleece, lap, mantle, muffle, roof, sheathe, wrap). (various references)

Russian 

складка (corrugation, crease, fold, lappet, plait, plica, plication, ply, ruck, wrinkle), подтыкать, подгибать (bend, bend under, tuck in), делать складки (crease, pucker, ruck). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

uvući (drag in, hold in, indent, pop in, pull in, retract, suck in, tuck in), ugurati (push in, shove in, tuck in), slatkiši (sweetmeats, sweets), sačuvati (lay by, maintain, preserve, save), presaviti (centerfold, fold, turn down), podvući (accentuate, point up, score under, tuck in, underline, underscore), podvrnuti (tuck in), nabrati (crease, pleat, rumple), nabor (crease, crinkle, fold, frill, goffer, plait, pleat, pucker, ruck, wrinkle), šav (joint, seam, stitch, suture). (various references)

Spanish

alforza (hem). (various references)

Swedish

veck (cockle, convolution, crease, crimp, Crinkle, fold, plait, pleat, ply, pucker, ruck, ruckle, wrinkle), stoppa in (tuck in). (various references)

Thai

ใกล้จะทันกัน (nip and tuck), การมีเพศสัมพันธ์ (bed, bonk, friar tuck, fuck). (various references)

Turkish

tepmek (boot, chuck away, foot it, kick, scout, spurn), tıkmak (coop, cram, put, shove, stuff, tuck in, wedge), tıkıştırmak (cram, huddle, huddle together, shove, squeeze, stuff), yiyecek (aliment, chow, comestibles, eatables, fare, food, forage, grub, keep, nurture, prog, provender, scran, tack, victual), 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 in, work up), sıkıştırmak (astringe, be urgent with smb., bear against, besiege, bombard, bottle up, clamp, clamp down, clinch, come down on, compact, compress, constrict, crowd, crush, drive smb. to the wall, dun, force, grind, grip, heckle, hurry, hustle, impact, impress, incarcerate, jam, jam in, lean on, lean upon, oppress, pin, pin down, pinch, ply, ply with, press, press for, press smb. close, push, push smb. to the wall, rush, shut in, slip into, squeeze, straiten, stress, tighten, wedge, weigh), pli (crease, flute, fluting, fold, plait, pleat), katlamak (bend, crease, Crimp, double, drape, enfold, fold, fold down, fold down back, infold, pleat, shut, tuck up, turn back), kambur çıkarma, kıvrılmak (be twisted, bend, crisp, curl, curl up, frizz, frizzle, huddle up, meander, snuggle, squirm, sweep, tuck up, tuck up one's legs, twine itself, twist, twist about, wiggle, wind, wriggle, wriggle about), 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 in, tuck up, turn back, turn down, twist, wind, wind up), kıstırmak (bring to bay, claw hold of, corner, jam, jam in, nip, pinch, shut, shut in), geminin kıç kuruzu, börek (Patty), çörek (biscuit, bun, cake, cookie, tea bread, tea cake). (various references)

Turkmen 

зyzgmak (tuck up, turn up), зermemek (tuck up, turn up). (various references)

Ukrainian

складка (corrugation, crease, flexure, plait, pleat, plica, plication, ply, ruckle, wimple, wrinkle), ховати (bield, conceal, cover, embowel, entomb, hide, hide away, hide up, inter, lay to rest, put away, secrete, shut up, stash, tomb), трубний звук (trumpet), засовувати (poke, put in, thrust), барабанний бій (drum, drumbeat, drumming, dub, rataplan), підгинати. (various references)

Vietnamese 

bánh kẹo. (various references)

Welsh

torchi (coil, roll, wreathe). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "tuck": tuckahoe, tuckahoes, tucked, tucker, tuckered, tuckering, tuckers, tucket, tuckets, tucking, tucks, tuckshop, tuckshops. (additional references)

Words ending with "tuck": stuck, unstuck, untuck. (additional references)

Words containing "tuck": untucked, untucking, untucks. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Tuck" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Auck, Fucka, teck, Thuc, tocak, touci, trck, ttock, Tuak, tuc, tucc, Tucci, tuce, tucky, tuik, tuk, tuke, Tulk, turc, Tutko, Tuzcu, tvc, tyuc, Tzuke, Uccc, uck, Ucko, ukccc, Utc, zuck. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: cut.

-2 letters: ut.

+1 letter: stuck, truck, tucks.

+2 letters: bucket, struck, trucks, tucked, tucker, tucket, untack, untuck, uptick.

+3 letters: backout, buckets, buttock, cookout, cutback, cutbank, cutwork, futtock, hackbut, ketchup, locknut, lockout, nutpick, outback, outcook, outkick, outrock, potluck, sackbut, sickout, stackup, stickum, stickup, trucked, trucker, truckle, tuckers, tuckets, tucking, tussock, tussuck, unstack, unstick, unstuck, untacks, untucks, upticks.

+4 letters: autarkic, backouts, blackout, bluetick, bucketed, buckshot, bucktail, buttocks, checkout, cockshut, cookouts, cultlike, cutbacks, cutbanks, cutworks, duckiest, ducktail, ductwork, futtocks, gunstock, hackbuts, huckster, ketchups, knockout, leukotic, locknuts, lockouts, luckiest, muckiest, mutchkin, nutpicks, outbacks, outcooks, outkicks, outrocks, outslick, outtrick, potlucks, quickest, quickset, restruck, sackbuts, sickouts, stackups, stickful, stickout, stickums, stickups, strucken, truckage, truckers, truckful, trucking, truckled, truckler, truckles, truckman, truckmen, tuckahoe, tuckered, tuckshop, tussocks, tussocky, tussucks, unstacks, unsticks, untacked, untucked, yuckiest.