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{ "forms": [ { "form": "tucks into", "tags": [ "present", "singular", "third-person" ] }, { "form": "tucking into", "tags": [ "participle", "present" ] }, { "form": "tucked into", "tags": [ "participle", "past" ] }, { "form": "tucked into", "tags": [ "past" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "*" }, "expansion": "tuck into (third-person singular simple present tucks into, present participle tucking into, simple past and past participle tucked into)", "name": "en-verb" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "verb", "senses": [ { "categories": [ { "kind": "other", "name": "English entries with incorrect language header", "parents": [ "Entries with incorrect language header", "Entry maintenance" ], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "English phrasal verbs with particle (into)", "parents": [], "source": "w" } ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1839, Charles Dickens, chapter 39, in Nicholas Nickleby", "text": "If you'll just let little Wackford tuck into something fat, I'll be obliged to you.", "type": "quotation" }, { "ref": "1983 November 28, Pico Iyer, “Battling \"Spiritual Pollution\"”, in Time", "text": "Well-heeled tourists tuck into French cuisine at Cardin's elegant new Maxim's de Pékin.", "type": "quotation" } ], "glosses": [ "To eat, especially with gusto." ], "id": "en-tuck_into-en-verb-cYy5UE9G", "links": [ [ "eat", "eat" ], [ "gusto", "gusto" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(transitive) To eat, especially with gusto." ], "related": [ { "word": "tuck in" } ], "tags": [ "transitive" ] } ], "word": "tuck into" }
{ "forms": [ { "form": "tucks into", "tags": [ "present", "singular", "third-person" ] }, { "form": "tucking into", "tags": [ "participle", "present" ] }, { "form": "tucked into", "tags": [ "participle", "past" ] }, { "form": "tucked into", "tags": [ "past" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "*" }, "expansion": "tuck into (third-person singular simple present tucks into, present participle tucking into, simple past and past participle tucked into)", "name": "en-verb" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "verb", "related": [ { "word": "tuck in" } ], "senses": [ { "categories": [ "English entries with incorrect language header", "English lemmas", "English multiword terms", "English phrasal verbs", "English phrasal verbs with particle (into)", "English terms with quotations", "English transitive verbs", "English verbs", "Quotation templates to be cleaned" ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1839, Charles Dickens, chapter 39, in Nicholas Nickleby", "text": "If you'll just let little Wackford tuck into something fat, I'll be obliged to you.", "type": "quotation" }, { "ref": "1983 November 28, Pico Iyer, “Battling \"Spiritual Pollution\"”, in Time", "text": "Well-heeled tourists tuck into French cuisine at Cardin's elegant new Maxim's de Pékin.", "type": "quotation" } ], "glosses": [ "To eat, especially with gusto." ], "links": [ [ "eat", "eat" ], [ "gusto", "gusto" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(transitive) To eat, especially with gusto." ], "tags": [ "transitive" ] } ], "word": "tuck into" }
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