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Food. “A tuck in,” a cram of food. (See above.)
“‘No,ʹ said Palliser, ‘weʹve no food.ʹ ‘By Jove!ʹ said the other, ‘Iʹll search creation for tucker to-night. Give me your gun.ʹ”—Watson: The Web of the Spider, chap. xii.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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