tuckerbox

See also: tucker-box and tucker box

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From tucker +‎ box.

Pronunciation

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Noun

tuckerbox (plural tuckerboxes)

  1. (Australia) A box used when travelling to store food or provisions.
    • 1982, Paul Radley, My Blue-Checker Corker and Me, Sydney: Fontana/Collins, page 96:
      His dog not only sat on the tuckerbox but also shit on it.
    • 2005, Jim Gasteen, Under the Mulga: A Bush Memoir, page 182:
      To Charlie, the function of a house was to keep the dew off your swag at night and shade the waterbag and tuckerboxes during the day.
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