TUCK AWAY

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Eat up; usually refers to a considerable quantity of food

Example:

My son tucked in a whole pizza

Synonyms:

put away; tuck away; tuck in

Classified under:

Verbs of eating and drinking

Hypernyms (to "tuck away" is one way to...):

eat up; finish; polish off (finish eating all the food on one's plate or on the table)

"Tuck away" entails doing...:

eat (eat a meal; take a meal)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

They tuck away more bread