tuck-shop

[ tuhk-shop ]

nounBritish.
  1. a shop where pastry, candy, or the like is sold.

Origin of tuck-shop

1
First recorded in 1855–60

Words Nearby tuck-shop

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How to use tuck-shop in a sentence

  • One of the easiest ways of discovering a person's social status at school is by watching his behaviour in the tuck-shop.

    The Loom of Youth | Alec Waugh
  • He was not yet known among the school in general; and it was only in Buller's that small boys gave tongue in the tuck-shop.

    The Loom of Youth | Alec Waugh
  • In the tuck-shop they acted as avenging angels sent to punish a wicked world.

    The Loom of Youth | Alec Waugh
  • On his way to the tuck shop, Ben, the captain of the Fifteen, came up and spoke to him.

    The Loom of Youth | Alec Waugh
  • And for want of anything better to do, he mouched down to Ruffer's, the unofficial tuck-shop.

    The Lonely Unicorn | Alec Waugh

British Dictionary definitions for tuck shop

tuck shop

noun
  1. mainly British a shop, esp one in or near a school, where food such as cakes and sweets are sold

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