tuckered out
Exhausted, very tired, as in I was all tuckered out after that game. The precise origin of this usage is not known. [Colloquial; 1820s]
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How to use tuckered out in a sentence
Exhaustion can come in one of two ways: either the supply is exhausted, or the body simply is too tuckered out.
If Rob Ford Really Smoked Crack, He’d Have a Hell of a Time Governing Toronto | Mansfield Frazier | May 29, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTI twisted his knife outer his hand, an' I laced him till I was clean tuckered out.
Earth's Enigmas | Charles G. D. RobertsIve got a Yankee side to me as well as a Southern side; sometimes I get tuckered out tryin to combine em.
The Wayfarers | Mary Stewart Cutting"You're clean tuckered out, I declare," said Celestine, half crying herself.
East Angels | Constance Fenimore WoolsonYou can feel him flop over, clean tuckered out with kicking and working his arms.
Careers of Danger and Daring | Cleveland Moffett
Nothin' much the matter with the little shaver, Madam, only he fell down Foxes' Gully, and is—he's sort of tuckered out.
The Brass Bound Box | Evelyn Raymond
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