good tucker
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9.4
- noun
- Australian
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buena comida
- You got good tucker most places, you had mates, and at night you could dream under the sky and the stars.
Examples
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For dinner, we cooked a feast that was truly good tucker for our friends.
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Good tucker there, and we've got lashings of Australian white wine to start with.
Fiction book (1990) -
After a long day hiking, we enjoyed some good tucker at the campsite.
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The restaurant is famous for its good tucker, drawing in locals and tourists alike.
Synonyms
An excellent meal that tastes very good
A large warm meal that fills you up
Antonyms
How Tasty
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- Australian
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'good' simply modifies 'tucker' (food), yielding 'good food' which a learner can derive from the constituents. Although 'tucker' is regional Australian/New Zealand slang and may be unfamiliar to some learners, if a B1 learner knows both words the phrase is immediately understandable.
Etymology
Good tucker may come from the old word tuck, which meant 'to eat' or 'to put food into your mouth', so people began to call the food itself tucker. That's why good tucker means 'good food'.