tucked up adj.2
1. dazed, unconscious.
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. | ||
Exiles of Asbestos Cottage 38: She would see little as a tucked-up patient in an ambulance. |
2. (UK Und.) married.
Modern Flash Dict. | ||
Flash Dict. in Sinks of London Laid Open. |
3. worn down, deprived, exhausted.
Delhi Sketch Bk 1 Aug. 94/1: [W]hen infirmity makes him reel, and he is completely ‘tucked up,’ their turn will arrive. | ||
Colonial Reformer I 112: The poor man [...] gets tucked up a bit. | ||
Bush Honeymoon 79: All the poor brutes of sheep [...] were looking wretchedly ‘tucked-up.’. | ||
(con. 1916) Tin Lizzie Troop (1978) 13: His loins were weak. He was tucked up. |
4. under control.
Inside 106: They’ve got the place well and truly ‘tucked up.’. |