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Definition of Tucked
1. Adjective. Having tucked or being tucked. "A fancy tucked shirt"
Definition of Tucked
1. Verb. (past of tuck) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tucked
1. tuck [v] - See also: tuck
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tucked
Literary usage of Tucked
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Modern Seamanship by Austin Melvin Knight (1917)
"This produces a tapered and much neater splice than if it were tucked three times in
... Beginning with any one strand, this is tucked from left to right, ..."
2. Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town by Cory Doctorow (2006)
"The ergonomic marvel of a chair that UPS had dropped off the previous day was
tucked under the wooden sideboard he'd set up as a desk in the second-floor ..."
3. No Name: A Novel by Wilkie Collins (1863)
"... '-HE tucked HIS UMBRELLA UNDER HIS ABM, AND JOCOSELY SPELLED HIS NAME FOR HEB
FURTHER ENLIGHTENMENT." "Because," answered the captain, "that is the way ..."
4. The Works of Virgil by Virgil (1891)
"... and adds to the number of the altars of the gods. his scanty tucked-up robe,
and in his left hand wielded a little target; whom Circe, his concubine, ..."
5. A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo by Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland (1889)
"... shoe- less little wretch, certainly not more than eight years old, had a "
cigar-light" box tucked under his arm; another, a couple of years older, ..."
6. Tuscan Cities by William Dean Howells (1885)
"we returned to the anteroom ; she borrowed her husband's handkerchief, lightly
blew her nose with it, and tucked it back in his breast pocket. XXXVII. ..."
7. The Eternal City by Hall Caine (1902)
"Then, lifting little Joseph in his arms, he carried him up to bed, tucked him in
his cot, smoothed his pillow, made the sign of the cross over his forehead, ..."
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