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  • verb Present participle of tucker.

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Examples

  • I don't think you want your fastest tuckering themselves out -- or injuring themselves -- in the qualifyings at the Olympics.

    "I'm not going to lie. The thought really crossed my mind for a split-second, 'There's no way.'" Ann Althouse 2008

  • He was a Farm Hand who so "tuckered himself out" during daylight that he was glad to pry off his wrinkled boots and lie down when it got dark in order to yank them on again, when the rooster crowed at dawn, for the purpose of "tuckering himself out" all over again.

    Deep Furrows Hopkins Moorhouse

  • June is also a good month to go, and temperatures can reach into the low 80s then, but by the middle of the month the waterfalls are tuckering out, the hoards of tourists have arrived and the mosquitoes can cause you to make up new swear words.

    The Shad Plank 2010

  • June is also a good month to go, and temperatures can reach into the low 80s then, but by the middle of the month the waterfalls are tuckering out, the hoards of tourists have arrived and the mosquitoes can cause you to make up new swear words.

    The Shad Plank 2010

  • Your steely focus is probably what's tuckering you out. how do you think a-rod would hit if the whole place was quiet, then, all of the sudden, someone just yells out right before he's going to swing? it's not an issue for baseball because there's consistency in noise levels which doesn't distract the player.

    The Big Lead Geoff Decker 2009

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