Tucker

See also: tucker

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈtʌkə(ɹ)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈtʌkɚ/
• Homophone: tucker
• Rhymes: -ʌkə(ɹ)

Proper noun

Tucker (countable and uncountable, plural Tuckers)

1. A south-western English surname originating as an occupation; equivalent to Fuller.
2. A male given name transferred from the surname, of modern usage.
   • 2022 October 26, Christina Zdanowicz, Claudia Dominguez, Lauren M. Johnson and Sara Smart, “The Waukesha victims included an 8-year-old boy, a loving grandmother and a woman excited to make her debut in the Dancing Grannies”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     Jackson Sparks and his brother, Tucker, were both struck.

   • 2023 February 20, Vanessa Friedman, “Don Lemon, Nikki Haley and the Lessons of a Hoodie”, in The New York Times‎^[2], →ISSN, archived from the original on 24 February 2023:

     Tucker Carlson (also a jacket and tie guy) picked up on the hoo-ha on his Fox News show, calling the hoodie-jacket combination a “cry for help” and inviting Roger Stone, the disgraced former political operative and author of his own “Best and Worst dressed List,” to comment.

3. A number of places in the United States:
   1. An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Jefferson County, Arkansas.
   2. A city in DeKalb County, Georgia.
      • 2025 January 26, Priscilla Alvarez and Rosa Flores, “Trump administration launches nationwide immigration enforcement blitz”, in CNN‎^[3]:

        In Tucker, another Atlanta suburb, an undocumented man attending church was arrested after ICE agents arrived, pastor Luis Ortiz told CNN. He said he was in the middle of his sermon when he noticed a couple of members of his church escort the man out.

   3. A census-designated place in Neshoba County, Mississippi.
   4. An extinct town in Ripley County, Missouri.
   5. A ghost town in Utah County, Utah.

Derived terms

• Tucker County

Anagrams

• retuck