tucker

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   food or provisions, especially in Australian usage

   After the long hike they sat down to a hearty bit of tucker.

From tuck (in the sense 'to eat heartily', from Old English tucian 'to torment, mistreat', later 'to pull, gather') + the suffix -er; the Australian sense 'food' developed in the 19th century.

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