tuckered (out), adj. — Green’s Dictionary of Slang

tuckered (out) adj.

(Aus./US) exhausted, worn out.

1800s		Southern Sketches 123: We fought until we were completely tuckered out [F&H].
1844		‘Jonathan Slick’ High Life in N.Y. I 167: I was clear tuckered out.
1855		T. Haliburton Nature and Human Nature II 407: He [...] laughed until he nearly fell on the ground fairly tuckered out.
1864		J.T. Trowbridge Cudjo’s Cave 310: I’s a tuckered-out nigger, sar; dat’s de troof.
1875		J. Miller First Fam’lies in the Sierras 93: The gals is almost tuckered! Go!
1888		N.Y. Herald 21 July n.p.: You look clean tuckered out [JSF].
1897		O. Wister Lin McLean 170: Ain’t you most tuckered out?
1900		Boy’s Own Paper 22 Dec. 178: I’d been ridin’ all day, and was pretty well tuckered out by sundown.
1902		Ade Girl Proposition 112: When I come home at Night all tuckered, there is nothing cheers me more than to listen to an incipient Author.
1916		H.L. Wilson Somewhere in Red Gap 49: Here I am panting like a tuckered hound.
1917		(con. 1908) E. Lynn Adventures of a Woman Hobo 105: Tony came in all tuckered out.
1926		D. Branch Cowboy and His Interpreters 160: Then he cuts his thinkin’ picket-rope, and drifts all over the hull mental prairie until he gits plumb tuckered out.
1934		T. Minehan Boy and Girl Tramps of America (1976) 129: Bulldogs can’t run [...] A little sprint and they are all tuckered out.
1945		J.T. Adams Mountain Murder 22: He’d run most of the way here, and was all tuckered out, so I fetched the word for you.
1953		L. Uris Battle Cry (1964) 133: I’m plumb tuckered.
1957		R. Prather Always Leave ’Em Dying 76: I’m all tuckered out, I’m pooped.
1964		in Randolph & Legman Ozark Folksongs and Folklore (1992) II 653: I was plumb tuckered out and ready to quit.
1970		E. Thompson Garden of Sand (1981) 479: She’s plumb tuckered out, ain’t she?
1986		Beano Comic Library No. 96 59: I’m plumb tuckered out!
1993		S. King Dolores Claiborne 65: She ran her mouth until she got all tuckered out.
2011		‘Jack Tunney’ Cutman [ebook] I was just plumb worn out [...] I was tuckered.
2016		N. Cummins Adventures of the Honey Badger [ebook] After my adventures during the Rio Olympics, I was tuckered out and needed a little lift.
2018		T. Pluck ‘Hot Rod Heart’ in Life During Wartime 97: ‘I’m tuckered out, baby’.