tuck sb in
UK also tuck sb up— phrasal verb with tuck uk/tʌk/us/tʌk/verb [ T usually + adv/prep ]
to make someone comfortable in bed, especially a child, by arranging the covers around them:
Daddy, if I go to bed now will you tuck me in?
The children are safely tucked up in bed.
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Animal physiology: sleep & sleeping
- beauty
- bed
- bunk
- bye-byes
- catnap
- conk
- delayed sleep phase pattern
- disco nap
- hit
- kip
- nod
- sleep over
- sleepwalker
- sleepyhead
- slept
- sound
- soundly
- tuck
- turn
- turn in
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