Green’s Dictionary of Slang

tucked up adj.2

[? tucked up adj.1 ]

1. dazed, unconscious.

[US]J.C. Neal Charcoal Sketches III (1865) 18: He’s on a shindy somewhere or other every night and gets knock’d down and tuck’d up three times a week rig’ler.
[NZ]J. Henderson Exiles of Asbestos Cottage 38: She would see little as a tucked-up patient in an ambulance.

2. (UK Und.) married.

[UK]G. Kent Modern Flash Dict.
[UK]Flash Dict. in Sinks of London Laid Open.

3. worn down, deprived, exhausted.

[Ind]Delhi Sketch Bk 1 Aug. 94/1: [W]hen infirmity makes him reel, and he is completely ‘tucked up,’ their turn will arrive.
[Aus]‘Rolf Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer I 112: The poor man [...] gets tucked up a bit.
[Aus]L.M. Palmer-Archer Bush Honeymoon 79: All the poor brutes of sheep [...] were looking wretchedly ‘tucked-up.’.
[US](con. 1916) G. Swarthout Tin Lizzie Troop (1978) 13: His loins were weak. He was tucked up.

4. under control.

[UK]J. Hoskison Inside 106: They’ve got the place well and truly ‘tucked up.’.