bib and tucker

American  

noun

1. clothes.

   to dress in one's best bib and tucker.

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bib and tucker British  

noun

1. informal an outfit of clothes (esp in the phrase best bib and tucker )

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Etymology

Origin of bib and tucker

First recorded in 1740–50

Example Sentences

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bib and tucker

Melbourne proudly put on its best bib and tucker for the local girl who made good.

From Time Magazine Archive

Since then, imagination has been at play; and, in accordance with its suggestions, his bib and tucker have been donned, as trusty adjutants to the formidable wooden spoon.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 346, August, 1844 by Various

And most of them even in their best bib and tucker were not out of the picture.

From Ruth Fielding Down East Or, The Hermit of Beach Plum Point by Alice B. Emerson

Presently Monsieur Station Master, and Madame Station Master, and little Station Master fils appeared, each in best bib and tucker, and led the way across the fields, to a little thatched farmhouse two miles distant.

From London Days A Book of Reminiscences by Arthur Warren

Jupiter might as soon keep awake, when Juno came in best bib and tucker, and with the cestus of Venus, to get him to sleep.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864 by Various