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Definition of tucker money in English: tucker moneynoun mass nounAustralian dated, informal A very small income or very small sum of money. I just work here for tucker money Example sentencesExamples - We all stay with Mother an' Father, him go work an' perhaps bring back tucker money.
- So incredibly rich were the finds of the 'sixties that few diggers who had shared in them were thereafter content with mere tucker-money.
- Most of the alluvial gold was found in Nuggety Gully and lower Oaky Creek. Bread and Water Gully produced only tucker money.
- We was on for savin', so we on'y drawed tucker-money.
- The old pick-and-shovel, dynamite and dry-blowing methods were no longer yielding more than "tucker money" at the gold-fields.
- Some of them are just making tucker money.
- Got to bring the tucker money home.
- He was perfectly capable of finding his own buyers, and too much his own man to be indentured by the lure of unlimited 'tucker money'.
Origin Mid 19th century: from the notion that the sum is enough to buy food only. |