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- verb Present participle of
tuck .
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Examples
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My fashion gaffe wasn't in tucking a shirt into a culotte* (people do this all the time, but how would you know?) but in wearing low-waisted pants.
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My fashion gaffe wasn't in tucking a shirt into a culotte* (people do this all the time, but how would you know?) but in wearing low-waisted pants.
French Word-A-Day: 2005
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My fashion gaffe wasn't in tucking a shirt into a culotte* (people do this all the time, but how would you know?) but in wearing low-waisted pants.
French Word-A-Day: 2005
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Some brands are taking great pains to ease men into the idea of tucking a short-sleeve woven shirt in pants, previously a fashion no-no.
Stylish Guys Steal Short Sleeves From Nerds Ray A. Smith 2011
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Her father spoke with reporters and recalled tucking her into bed shortly before the shooting.
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Her father spoke with reporters and recalled tucking her in to bed just before the shooting.
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"Everyone who has been on the course falls in love with the eglu and hens and even the most sceptical of husbands can't resist the idea of tucking into a delicious boiled egg produced by their own hens."
Archive 2008-01-01 Thatsnews 2008
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"Baring the leg" implies a grievous calamity, probably borrowed from the notion of tucking up the skirts and stripping for flight.
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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But while the idea of tucking one of those toasty, Apple laptop power adapters into a "foot cozy" might sound ...
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However, the brunette beauty can recall tucking into 300 canapes, crying for half and hour and being confused about what was going on.
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