"tuck away" meaning in English

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      "form": "tucks away",
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    },
    {
      "form": "tucking away",
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        "participle",
        "present"
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    },
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      "form": "tucked away",
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        "past"
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      "form": "tucked away",
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  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "She's been tucking away cash for a rainy day."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To save or hoard (something); to hide (something) in a safe spot; to squirrel away."
      ],
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        [
          "hoard",
          "hoard"
        ],
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          "hide",
          "hide"
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        [
          "squirrel away",
          "squirrel away"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To save or hoard (something); to hide (something) in a safe spot; to squirrel away."
      ],
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          "text": "The shop was tucked away behind a parking garage.",
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      "glosses": [
        "To be located in a remote, inaccessible or difficult-to-see spot."
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) To be located in a remote, inaccessible or difficult-to-see spot."
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        "intransitive"
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          "ref": "2025 June 11, Christian Wolmar, “First Class delights with an occasional pang of hunger”, in RAIL, number 1037, page 34:",
          "text": "There was no limit on drinks, and the guy next to me tucked away a few G and Ts. I confined myself to a pleasant Brewdog Ale and a glass of slightly insipid wine.",
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      "glosses": [
        "To eat or drink a lot of (something)."
      ],
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        "(transitive, UK, slang) To eat or drink a lot of (something)."
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        "slang",
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  "word": "tuck away"
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    },
    {
      "form": "tucking away",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
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    },
    {
      "form": "tucked away",
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        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tucked away",
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        {
          "text": "She's been tucking away cash for a rainy day."
        }
      ],
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        "To save or hoard (something); to hide (something) in a safe spot; to squirrel away."
      ],
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        [
          "hoard",
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          "squirrel away",
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        "(transitive) To save or hoard (something); to hide (something) in a safe spot; to squirrel away."
      ],
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          "text": "The shop was tucked away behind a parking garage.",
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      "glosses": [
        "To be located in a remote, inaccessible or difficult-to-see spot."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) To be located in a remote, inaccessible or difficult-to-see spot."
      ],
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          "text": "There was no limit on drinks, and the guy next to me tucked away a few G and Ts. I confined myself to a pleasant Brewdog Ale and a glass of slightly insipid wine.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To eat or drink a lot of (something)."
      ],
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          "eat",
          "eat"
        ],
        [
          "drink",
          "drink"
        ]
      ],
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        "(transitive, UK, slang) To eat or drink a lot of (something)."
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        "slang",
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  "word": "tuck away"
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