tucker
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8.9
- noun
- Australian
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comida
- She packed some extra tucker for our camping trip this weekend.
- bush tucker
- good tucker
Examples
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Good tucker there, and we've got lashings of Australian white wine to start with.
Fiction book (1990) -
You got good tucker most places, you had mates, and at night you could dream under the sky and the stars.
Fiction book (1996) -
Give him a big feed of that tucker he likes.
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Got plenty of tucker here.
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Hey, you got any tucker?
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More tucker here than you could poke a stick at.
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You'll need some proper tucker.
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That's good Kiwi tucker.
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Everyone enjoyed the delicious tucker prepared for the barbecue.
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After the hike, we were all craving some good tucker to restore our energy.
Synonyms
1
9.4
Tasty, filling food like a home-cooked meal or pub food
A large warm meal that fills you up
Compounds
How Filling
Surface Forms
Etymology
Tucker for food is common in Australian English and comes from the old verb tuck meaning 'to eat' (as in 'tuck in'), so tucker simply means the food you eat, especially in an informal, hearty way.