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tuck in

Etymology 1 vb. 1 (context transitive English) To pull the blankets or duvet up over (someone in bed); to put (someone) to bed. 2 (context transitive English) To push the fabric at the bottom of a shirt under the pants. 3 (context transitive soccer English) To score from with a casual motion Etymology 2

vb. (context intransitive English) To start to eat.

WordNet
tuck in

v. eat up; usually refers to a considerable quantity of food; "My son tucked in a whole pizza" [syn: tuck away, put away]

Usage examples of "tuck in".

Moving toward the bed, she began to tuck in the sheets they'd ripped out.

The single hour's sleep she had managed to tuck in between sex and murder was beginning to wear on her.

You've got two hours to stretch your legs around here, then we tuck in.

Slim as she was, she had to tuck in her tummy, grateful that her pregnancy wasn't far enough along to impede her.

This sudden explosion made Bert tuck in his head with the celerity of a startled tortoise.

Ramses snatched at the sheet, which Emerson was trying to tuck in.