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tuck_into
tuck into
English
Verb
- (transitive) To eat, especially with gusto.
- 1839, Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby, ch. 39:
- If you'll just let little Wackford tuck into something fat, I'll be obliged to you.
- 1983 Nov. 28, Pico Iyer, "Battling "Spiritual Pollution"," Time:
- Well-heeled tourists tuck into French cuisine at Cardin's elegant new Maxim's de Pékin.
- 1839, Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby, ch. 39: