tucker
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Pearce also starts the party late, so the dance party before the rave can tucker kids out before he takes the stage.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 3, 2025
"Goannas are significant cultural totems for Traditional Owners across northern Australia, and an important bush tucker food," Dr Ward-Fear says.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 9, 2024
She has experience of bush tucker trials, having appeared on I'm A Celebrity's spin-off show, Extra Camp, where she was made to eat sheep brains.
From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2022
The duchess joked that she thought she was "in trouble" and that they were going to make her do one of their "tucker trials."
From Fox News ● Oct. 19, 2021
“Gods, I’m exhausted. There’s nothing like the certain knowledge of your own death to tucker you out.”
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
In their best bibs and tuckers, Hollywood's finest lined up with Britain's luvvie elite to tussle over, to quote Billy Connolly, "a death mask on a stick".
From The Guardian ● Feb. 14, 2013
Gonzalez Videla's old ambassadorial friend from Vichy, Admiral William D. Leahy, the vice presidents from Argentina, Peru and Brazil all turned up in their best bibs & tuckers.
From Time Magazine Archive
"They've put on their best bibs and tuckers for you," she cried.
From Patricia Brent, Spinster by Jenkins, Herbert George
They raced, all three, with flying plaits and curls, much kicking-up of long black legs, and a frank display of frills and tuckers.
From The Getting of Wisdom by Richardson, Henry Handel
What noble candour, to admit that the undutifulness of people who did not think the honour of adjusting her tuckers worth the sacrifice of their own lives, was, though highly criminal, not altogether unnatural!
From The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 1 by Burney, Fanny
Labs are happiest in an active household, but when they’re tuckered out, prepare yourself for a cuddle fest — and to be amazed at how much space one dog can take up in your bed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2025
Other than everybody just getting tuckered out — perpetual conflict can be exhausting — the reality is that Sawant has always been more story than substance.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 21, 2023
And on Tuesday, he was so tuckered from his 121-pitch no-hit bid six days earlier, that Manager Dusty Baker took him out after just 93 pitches.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 28, 2017
Meanwhile, Daenerys Targaryen, the most anime of all Game of Thrones characters, is off who-knows-where with Drogon, who is understandably tuckered out after their great escape.
From The Verge ● Jun. 16, 2015
We were tuckered out, as my mother would say.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
There, in the half-shade, he saw the horse standing, the sunshine and the tuckering shadow of leaves dancing over his brown body.
From The Prussian Officer by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)
I wuz most melted too, for St. Louis weather is tuckering to them that can't stand heat.
From Samantha at the St. Louis Exposition by Holley, Marietta
Presently, however, they slowed down to a "dog trot" at the suggestion of Clifford Long, who warned his fellow Scouts against "tuckering themselves out."
From Campfire Girls in the Allegheny Mountains or, A Christmas Success against Odds by Francis, Stella M.
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