Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(orig. US) to become exhausted, to collapse.

1844		‘Jonathan Slick’ High Life in N.Y. I 236: She al’rs contrived to tucker them out with hard work.
1907		J.W. Carr ‘Word-List from Hampstead, N.H.’ in DN III iii 203: tucker out, v. To tire out, to exhaust completely. [...] ‘You can’t tucker him out.’.
1910		B.L. Bowen ‘Word-List From Western New York’ in DN III:vi 450: tucker out, v. To tire out completely. ‘That job tuckered me all out.’.
1928		Thurman & Rapp Harlem in Coll. Writings (2003) 315: Dem four flights sure tuckers a body out.
1935		Peters & Sklar Stevedore II ii: Whew! Mobiling dem sacks sho’ do tucker a body out.
1988		D. Woodrell Muscle for the Wing 141: Keeping up the thumping reel until the tush hog tuckered out and collapsed on his side.