Usually means: Folds sewn to reduce fabric.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. tucks: Merriam-Webster
  2. tucks: Collins English Dictionary
  3. tucks: Vocabulary.com
  4. Tuck's, Tucks, tucks: Wordnik
  5. tucks: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. tucks: Wiktionary
  7. tucks: Dictionary.com
  8. tucks: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. tucks: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tucks: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tucks: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tucks: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tucks: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Note: See tuck as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (tuck)

verb:  (transitive) To pull or gather up (an item of fabric).
verb:  (transitive) To push into a snug position; to place somewhere safe, or handy, or somewhat hidden.
verb:  (intransitive, often with "in" or "into") To eat; to consume.
verb:  (ergative) To fit neatly.
verb:  To curl into a ball; to fold up and hold one's legs.
verb:  To sew folds; to make a tuck or tucks in.
verb:  To full, as cloth.
verb:  (LGBTQ, of a drag queen, trans woman, etc.) To conceal one’s penis and testicles, as with a gaff or by fastening them down with adhesive tape.
verb:  (when playing scales on piano keys) To keep the thumb in position while moving the rest of the hand over it to continue playing keys that are outside the thumb.
noun:  An act of tucking; a pleat or fold.
noun:  (sewing) A fold in fabric that has been stitched in place from end to end, as to reduce the overall dimension of the fabric piece.
noun:  A curled position.
noun:  (medicine, surgery) A plastic surgery technique to remove excess skin.
noun:  (music, piano, when playing scales on piano keys) The act of keeping the thumb in position while moving the rest of the hand over it to continue playing keys that are outside the thumb.
noun:  (diving, gymnastics) A curled position, with the shins held towards the body.
noun:  (nautical) The afterpart of a ship, immediately under the stern or counter, where the ends of the bottom planks are collected and terminate by the tuck-rail.
noun:  (British, dated, school slang, India, uncountable) Food, especially snack food.
noun:  (archaic) A rapier, a sword.
noun:  The beat of a drum.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  A diminutive of the male given name Tucker.
verb:  (aviation) Ellipsis of Mach tuck. [(aviation, aerodynamics) To experience Mach tuck.]
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