Definition of Tucker-bag

1. Noun. A bag used for carrying food. "The swagman filled his tuckerbag"

Generic synonyms: Bag
Geographical relationships: Australia, Commonwealth Of Australia

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tucker-bag

tuchus
tuck away
tuck box
tuck boxes
tuck in
tuck into
tuck shop
tuck shops
tuckable
tuckahoe
tuckahoes
tucked
tucked in
tucker
tucker-bag (current term)
tucker out
tuckered
tuckered out
tuckering
tuckeroo
tuckers
tucket
tuckets
tucking
tucking in
tucks
tucks in
tuckshop

Literary usage of Tucker-bag

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Australian Life in Town and Country by Ernest Charles Buley (1905)
"When he wishes to replenish his "tucker-bag," he can usually approach the ... From the tucker-bag, a sort of pillowslip with the mouth in the middle, ..."

2. Navy Song Book edited by Barry Leonard (1998)
"And he sang as he stowed that jumbuck in his tucker bag, "You'll come ... "Where's that jolly jumbuck you've got in your tucker bag? ..."

3. Read & Understand Poetry, Grades 3-4 by Michael Ryall, Evan-Moor Educational Publishers (2005)
"Down came a jumbuck to drink at the water hole, Up jumped the swagman and grabbed him with glee; And he sang as he stowed him away in his tucker bag, ..."

4. Wandering Jew Card Game. by Robert D. Manning (1986)
"Down came the jumbuck to drink at the water-hole, Up jumped the swagman and grabbed him with glee, And he sang as he put him away in his tucker-bag, ..."

5. Hunt's Merchants' Magazine by Freeman Hunt (1847)
"Beverly Tucker bag written a letter to the editors of the " Southern Standard " in which he gives the following as the most rational account that he has ..."

6. Recreation by George O. Shields, American Canoe Association, League of American Sportsmen (1899)
"... business in life is to hang about a camp and rob the " tucker " bag. Everything eatable has to be hung out of his reach, as well as inclosed in bags, ..."

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