tuckered


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tuck·er 1

 (tŭk′ər)
n.
1. One that tucks, especially an attachment on a sewing machine for making tucks.
2. A piece of linen or frill of lace formerly worn by women around the neck and shoulders.
3. Chiefly Australian Food.

tuck·er 2

 (tŭk′ər)
tr.v. tuck·ered, tuck·er·ing, tuck·ers Informal
To make weary; exhaust. Usually used with out.
[Perhaps from tuck.]
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tuckered

adjective
Informal. Extremely tired.Also used with out:
bleary, dead, drained, exhausted, fatigued, rundown, spent, tired out, wearied, weariful, weary, worn-down, worn-out.
Informal: beat, bushed.
Slang: done in, fagged (out), pooped (out).
Idioms: all in, ready to drop.
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Well, at last he could hardly flop his wings, he was so tuckered out.
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Then, indeed, does the tuckered sylph come out in fairy form and proceed with joy under cousinly escort to the exhausted old assembly-room, fourteen heavy miles off, which, during three hundred and sixty-four days and nights of every ordinary year, is a kind of antipodean lumber- room full of old chairs and tables upside down.
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When she was tuckered out and had to hold up, he says, quite ca'm:
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