Tuck Shop

"Well, sir," says I, "like you, I wouldn't trust the Nana as far as the tuck-shop." ❋ Unknown (2010)

In absence of proper control and check on the manufacture and sale of spurious goods, seven children fell ill after consuming stale sweets from a local tuck-shop in Kashmir village. ❋ Unknown (2008)

My father financed the bulk and my mother helped by organising a variety of fund-raisers: she held raffles and put on a movie evening at school, while I worked in the tuck-shop selling sweets. ❋ Heyns, Penny & Lemke, Gary (2002)

UCT students, damaged at least 12 cars and raided a tuck-shop on campus. ❋ Unknown (1993)

It is pleasant to picture the German General Staff laboriously ploughing through reports of football-matches, juvenile poems and letters to the Editor complaining of the rise in prices at the tuck-shop, in order to discover that Second-Lieutenant Blank, of the Umptieth Battery, R.F.A., is stationed in Mesopotamia, and therefrom to deduce the present distribution of the British Army. ❋ Various (N/A)

Meanwhile, Plunger and Moncrief minor were thrown into a state of great excitement by finding letters awaiting them at the adjacent tuck-shop. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

"The khaki-clad boys were as merry as a party of undergraduates celebrating some joyous event at the college tuck-shop." ❋ Various (N/A)

"Right-o!" he yelled back; and racing across the green jumped the railings, and went laughing up to the tuck-shop. ❋ Alec Waugh (1939)

He was not yet known among the school in general; and it was only in Buller's that small boys gave tongue in the tuck-shop. ❋ Alec Waugh (1939)

In the tuck-shop they acted as avenging angels sent to punish a wicked world. ❋ Alec Waugh (1939)

Whenever he went up to the tuck-shop a voice from the Buller's doorway croaked: "Wait for the Three Cock!" ❋ Alec Waugh (1939)

Gordon, of course, had to be fairly quiet in the tuck-shop. ❋ Alec Waugh (1939)

One of the easiest ways of discovering a person's social status at school is by watching his behaviour in the tuck-shop. ❋ Alec Waugh (1939)

Then Foster came in aglow with excitement, and the two went up to the tuck-shop and ate numerous ices, and made a great row, and knocked over many chairs, and threw sugar about. ❋ Alec Waugh (1939)

Then the school would come down after lunch with rugs and cushions, and would clamour outside the tuck-shop for ices and ginger beer. ❋ Alec Waugh (1939)

Next morning in break Gordon passed Buller on his way to the tuck-shop. ❋ Alec Waugh (1939)

"Caruthers, you slacker, come up to the tuck-shop." ❋ Alec Waugh (1939)

The next half-holiday I was walking towards the tuck-shop and gloomily deciding that Doe's wilful estrangement from me was fast being frozen into tacit enmity, when I felt an arm tucked most affectionately into mine. ❋ Ernest Raymond (1931)

[Damo]: Oi who wants to go to the tuck shop with me? I'll shout you something. [Clazza]: Aw fuck yeah lets go [cunce]. The Boys: Oi buy us something too yeah ❋ S1ck Cunt (2018)

While [purchasing] my TI-85 and .07mm lead for my [mechanical pencil], Amanda, the local tuck shop slut, performed her duties until I [cashed] my semenal paycheck in her cheeks. ❋ Urban Sam (2007)

"OMG, look at those [tuck shop lady arms], they look like that [lady] has 4 legs and no [arms]" ❋ Monkeyvomit (2010)