tuck-shop
a shop where pastry, candy, or the like is sold.
Origin of 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 WaughHe 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 WaughIn the tuck-shop they acted as avenging angels sent to punish a wicked world.
The Loom of Youth | Alec WaughOn his way to the tuck shop, Ben, the captain of the Fifteen, came up and spoke to him.
The Loom of Youth | Alec WaughAnd 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
mainly British a shop, esp one in or near a school, where food such as cakes and sweets are sold
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