tucker
noun
a person or thing that tucks.
Example Sentences
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In their best bibs and tuckers, Hollywood's finest lined up with Britain's luvvie elite to tussle over, to quote Billy Connolly, "a death mask on a stick".
From The Guardian ● Feb. 14, 2013
Gonzalez Videla's old ambassadorial friend from Vichy, Admiral William D. Leahy, the vice presidents from Argentina, Peru and Brazil all turned up in their best bibs & tuckers.
From Time Magazine Archive
Esther always was a simpleton—ran away, and all that, before she was out of her bibs and tuckers.
From Sharing Her Crime by May Agnes Fleming
Often in mid-winter the scant-skirted French calico gowns were made with short elbow sleeves and round, low necks, and the throat and shoulders were lightly covered with thin lawn neckerchiefs or dimity tuckers.
From Sabbath in Puritan New England by Alice Morse Earle
So, both in our best bibs and tuckers, and all taut and ready for the sea, as father would have said, we were driven over to the Brindlecombe house, or palace, whichever you call it.
From Galusha the Magnificent by Joseph Crosby Lincoln
