Brewer's: Tucker

Food. “A tuck in,” a cram of food. (See above.)

“ `No,' said Palliser, `we've no food.' `By Jove!' said the other, `Ill search creation for tucker to-night. Give me your gun.' ” —Watson: The Web of the Spider, chap. xii.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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