tuck shop

Example Sentences

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The family had to sell their caravan, and she helped out by giving dance classes and working in the tuck shop of the youth club where he mother worked.

From BBC • May 16, 2026

Musaib, 20, could not stop crying as he watched authorities demolishing his week-old tuck shop, built with his father's savings.

From BBC • Aug. 8, 2023

He called in the tuck shop for his usual selection of sweets - pink shrimp, flying saucers, sherbet.

From BBC • Oct. 19, 2021

But whoever it was, it was probably the tall girl, the same girl who helped at the tuck shop giving out 1p fried eggs and lips like it might be the last thing we ate.

From The Guardian • Jun. 14, 2013

Then, immediately after assembly, there would be a race to the tuck shop because the queue to buy food was so long.

From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah