tuck shop

Example Sentences

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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

Afterwards, the band were taken for a meal in the tuck shop and were shown Bloomfield's typically spartan dorm room.

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2023

There's a tuck shop at work that's within eyeshot and therefore really hard to resist.

From BBC • Oct. 2, 2019

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

The second we were dismissed from assembly I would run like a bat out of hell to the tuck shop so I could be the first one there.

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