TUCKER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Tucker mean? 

• TUCKER (noun)
  The noun TUCKER has 4 senses:

1. United States anarchist influential before World War I (1854-1939)

2. United States vaudevillian (born in Russia) noted for her flamboyant performances (1884-1966)

3. a sewer who tucks

4. a detachable yoke of linen or lace worn over the breast of a low-cut dress

  Familiarity information: TUCKER used as a noun is uncommon.

• TUCKER (verb)
  The verb TUCKER has 1 sense:

1. wear out completely

  Familiarity information: TUCKER used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TUCKER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

United States anarchist influential before World War I (1854-1939)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Benjamin Ricketson Tucker; Tucker

Instance hypernyms:

anarchist; nihilist; syndicalist (an advocate of anarchism)

Sense 2

Meaning:

United States vaudevillian (born in Russia) noted for her flamboyant performances (1884-1966)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Sophie Tucker; Tucker

Instance hypernyms:

comedienne (a female comedian)

vaudevillian (a performer who works in vaudeville)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A sewer who tucks

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("tucker" is a kind of...):

sewer (someone who sews)

Derivation:

tuck (draw together into folds or puckers)

tuck (make a tuck or several folds in)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A detachable yoke of linen or lace worn over the breast of a low-cut dress

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("tucker" is a kind of...):

yoke (fabric comprising a fitted part at the top of a garment)

• TUCKER (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Wear out completely

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

beat; exhaust; tucker; tucker out; wash up

Context example:

He was all washed up after the exam

Hypernyms (to "tucker" is one way to...):

fag; fag out; fatigue; jade; outwear; tire; tire out; wear; wear down; wear out; wear upon; weary (exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "tucker"):

frazzle (exhaust physically or emotionally)

play (exhaust by allowing to pull on the line)

kill (tire out completely)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

 Context examples 

They were dressed alike, but this sister wore her dress with a more youthful air than the other; and perhaps had a trifle more frill, or tucker, or brooch, or bracelet, or some little thing of that kind, which made her look more lively.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

However, when I had brushed my hair very smooth, and put on my black frock—which, Quakerlike as it was, at least had the merit of fitting to a nicety—and adjusted my clean white tucker, I thought I should do respectably enough to appear before Mrs. Fairfax, and that my new pupil would not at least recoil from me with antipathy.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Ranged on benches down the sides of the room, the eighty girls sat motionless and erect; a quaint assemblage they appeared, all with plain locks combed from their faces, not a curl visible; in brown dresses, made high and surrounded by a narrow tucker about the throat, with little pockets of holland (shaped something like a Highlander's purse) tied in front of their frocks, and destined to serve the purpose of a work-bag: all, too, wearing woollen stockings and country-made shoes, fastened with brass buckles.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)