tucker

If you wanted to tell a city clerk from a blacksmith, especially when they were both in their best bib and tucker, all you needed to do was sidle up and sniff.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

I will take my French mastiff Rosie for a hike at Fryman Canyon to tucker her out for the day and also just feel like I moved on a Sunday.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 28, 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 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

What noble candour, to admit that the undutifulness of people, who did not think the honour of adjusting her tuckers worth the sacrifice of their own lives, was, though highly criminal, not altogether unnatural!

From Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 2 by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay

"They've put on their best bibs and tuckers for you," she cried.

From Patricia Brent, Spinster by Herbert George Jenkins

Wait till afternoon; they'll be expectin' you then and they'll be rigged out in their best bibs and tuckers.

From Keziah Coffin by Joseph Crosby Lincoln

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

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge On one day of my testing, the regular iPhone 13 made it from 7am to midnight before it tuckered out.

From The Verge ● Sep. 21, 2021

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

From New York Times ● Jul. 15, 2015

My long tramp through the mud left me tuckered out and just too worldly-wise to go along with the teen scene.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

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

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