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tucker out

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tuck⋅er

2  [tuhk-er]
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–verb (used with object) Informal.
to weary; tire; exhaust (often fol. by out): The game tuckered him out.
Origin:
1825–35, Americanism; tuck 1 + -er 6
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tucker  (2)
"to tire, weary," 1833, New England slang, of uncertain origin, perhaps from tucked (pp. of tuck (v.)), which had, in ref. to dogs, a slang sense of "exhausted, underfed."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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