tuck-out, n.² — Green’s Dictionary of Slang

tuck-out n.²

[9C–13C SE tuck, to punish, to ill-treat]

(Aus.) a fight, a beating.

1832		Hill’s Life N.S.W. (Sydney) 31 Aug. 3: [advert] Bill Dargin was beaten by me; and I think never before or since received such a tuck-out [AND].
1847		Bell’s Life in Sydney 25 Dec. 2/2: A hostile meeting took place this morning […] on the Richmond Bottoms, for what is vulgarly termed a tuck-out, not of bacon and eggs, or roast beef and plum-pudding, but a reciprocal interchange … between two very formidable farmers of the locality .