tuck away
Britishverb
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to eat (a large amount of food)
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to store, esp in a place difficult to find
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Eat heartily, as in He tucked away an enormous steak . [ Colloquial ; mid-1800s] Also see tuck into .
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Hide, put in storage, as in She had several hundred dollars tucked away . [c. 1900]
Example Sentences
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It was nice to be tucked away from the world.
For tech-savvy users, there’s a wealth of advanced settings tucked away in the menu, including protocol selection, kill switch customization and split tunneling rules.
From Salon
But I’ll leave a final box tucked away in my parents’ basement, waiting.
His forge sits tucked away in one of the beacons' hidden vales, only a few miles from the cowshed where he made that bold promise all those years ago.
From BBC
A loaf of banana bread, a batch of cookies, a jar of preserves, even a frozen pie — something tucked away just in case.
From Salon
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