TUCK


Meaning of TUCK in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ tʌk ]

( tucks, tucking, tucked)

1.

If you tuck something somewhere, you put it there so that it is safe, comfortable, or neat.

He tried to tuck his flapping shirt inside his trousers...

She found a rose tucked under the windscreen wiper of her car one morning.

VERB : V n prep , V-ed

2.

You can use tuck to refer to a form of plastic surgery which involves reducing the size of a part of someone’s body.

She’d undergone 13 operations, including a tummy tuck.

N-COUNT : usu supp N

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