slang. [f. TUCK sb.1 (sense 6 b).] A pastry-cook’s shop for the sale of pastry, sweets, fruit, and the like, chiefly to schoolboys.
1857. Hughes, Tom Brown, I. vi. Come along down to Sally Harrowell’s; that’s our School-house tuck-shop—she bakes such stunning murphies.
1861. Thackeray, Round. Papers, xvi. 378. We share our toffy: go halves at the tuck-shop; do each other’s exercises.
1885. Mozley, Remin., I. 410. The five years I was at Charterhouse [1820–5] I never once went near the tuck-shop.
