Usually means: Fold or push in neatly.
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General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. tuck: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. tuck: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. tuck, tuck, tuck, tuck: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. tuck: Collins English Dictionary
  5. tuck: Vocabulary.com
  6. Tuck, tuck: Wordnik
  7. tuck: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Tuck, tuck: Wiktionary
  9. tuck: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. tuck: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. tuck: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. tuck: Dictionary.com
  13. tuck (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. tuck: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. The Tuck (NFL game), Tuck (comics), Tuck (disambiguation), Tuck (footballer), Tuck (knitting), Tuck (nickname), Tuck (sewing), Tuck (surname), Tuck: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Tuck: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. tuck: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. tuck: Rhymezone
  19. tuck: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. tuck: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Tuck: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. tuck: Free Dictionary
  23. tuck: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  24. tuck: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. Tuck, tuck: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  26. tuck: Dictionary/thesaurus
  27. tuck: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tuck: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tuck: Idioms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. tuck, tuck, tuck, tuck, tuck, tuck, tuck: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. tuck: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. t.u.c.k, tuck, the tuck: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  2. Tuck: Sports Definitions

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  2. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
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:  (LGBT, 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) 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) 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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