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Pearce also starts the party late, so the dance party before the rave can tucker kids out before he takes the stage.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 3, 2025

"Goannas are significant cultural totems for Traditional Owners across northern Australia, and an important bush tucker food," Dr Ward-Fear says.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 9, 2024

The 31-year-old has had previous experience of bush tucker trials, having appeared on I'm A Celebrity's spin-off show, Extra Camp, where she was made to eat sheep brains.

From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2022

The duchess joked that she thought she was "in trouble" and that they were going to make her do one of their "tucker trials."

From Fox News ● Oct. 19, 2021

“Gods, I’m exhausted. There’s nothing like the certain knowledge of your own death to tucker you out.”

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

In their best bibs and tuckers, Hollywood's finest lined up with Britain's luvvie elite to tussle over, to quote Billy Connolly, "a death mask on a stick".

From The Guardian ● Feb. 14, 2013

Gonzalez Videla's old ambassadorial friend from Vichy, Admiral William D. Leahy, the vice presidents from Argentina, Peru and Brazil all turned up in their best bibs & tuckers.

From Time Magazine Archive

Of course, his faithful subjects' purses   Were ready with their aids and succors; Nothing was seen but pensioned Nurses;   And the land groaned with bibs and tuckers.

From The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by William Michael Rossetti

Maggie was frowning, and twisting her shoulders, that she might, if possible, shrink away from the prickliest of tuckers; while her mother was saying, "Don't, Maggie, my dear—don't look so ugly!"

From Tom and Maggie Tulliver by George Eliot

When they are invited by the older members of the family, it is time to put on their "best bibs and tuckers."

From Frost's Laws and By-Laws of American Society A condensed but thorough treatise on etiquette and its usages in America, containing plain and reliable directions for deportment in every situation in life. by Sarah Annie Frost

Labs are happiest in an active household, but when they’re tuckered out, prepare yourself for a cuddle fest — and to be amazed at how much space one dog can take up in your bed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2025

Other than everybody just getting tuckered out — perpetual conflict can be exhausting — the reality is that Sawant has always been more story than substance.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 21, 2023

Are they still tuckered from their brilliance last season?

From Washington Post ● Jun. 25, 2017

She is exhausting and exhilarating to observe, and she must be truly tuckered out after each performance.

From New York Times ● Jul. 15, 2015

“So tuckered out he fell asleep,” the boy said to himself.

From "Sounder" by William H. Armstrong

I wuz most melted too, for St. Louis weather is tuckering to them that can't stand heat.

From Samantha at the St. Louis Exposition by Marietta Holley

Presently, however, they slowed down to a "dog trot" at the suggestion of Clifford Long, who warned his fellow Scouts against "tuckering themselves out."

From Campfire Girls in the Allegheny Mountains or, A Christmas Success against Odds by Stella M. Francis

There, in the half-shade, he saw the horse standing, the sunshine and the tuckering shadow of leaves dancing over his brown body.

From The Prussian Officer by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence