tuckered
ər verb (used with object) Informal.
to weary; tire; exhaust (often followed by out ): The game tuckered him out.
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tucker1 (ˈtʌkə) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a person or thing that tucks |
| 2. | a detachable yoke of lace, linen, etc, often white, worn over the breast, as of a low-cut dress |
| 3. | an attachment on a sewing machine used for making tucks at regular intervals |
| 4. | old-fashioned (Austral), (NZ) an informal word for food |
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Tuckered
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| tucker2 (ˈtʌkə) | |
| —vb (usually foll by out) | |
| informal chiefly (US), (Canadian) to weary or tire completely | |
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Word Origin & History
tucker
"piece of lace worn around the neck," 1688, from M.E. tokker "tucker, one who dresses or finishes cloth" (see tuck).
tucker
"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."
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