tuck-shop
Definitions
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- noun A shop where tuck or food, particularly sweet stuff, pastry, etc., is sold.
Examples
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The khaki-clad boys were as merry as a party of undergraduates celebrating some joyous event at the college tuck-shop.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, February 28, 1917
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Meanwhile, Plunger and Moncrief minor were thrown into a state of great excitement by finding letters awaiting them at the adjacent tuck-shop.
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Then Foster came in aglow with excitement, and the two went up to the tuck-shop and ate numerous ices, and made a great row, and knocked over many chairs, and threw sugar about.
Note
'Tuck' as slang for food came from the verb form of 'tuck' meaning to consume or swallow, with the idea of tucking food away or out of sight.
