A shop, typically one on school premises, that sells confectionery, snacks, and soft drinks.
the tasty crisps have proved popular with school tuck shops
Example sentencesExamples
Whenever a prefect called, you had to run and if you were the first there you had to do a message like visiting the tuckshop for the prefect to buy him a pie.
They are already keen to work with schools to develop food policies, run healthy tuck shops, and teach both pupils and staff more about how to eat a healthy balanced diet.
They are particularly proud of their healthy tuck shop, which does a roaring trade in toast and orange juice.
The shop has already come up with fruit-based snacks for school tuck shops in the area.
The scheme is about, for instance getting schools to stock fruit and vegetables at the tuck shop instead of sweets.
Mondays provided me and my siblings with the post-weekend no-fresh-bread luxury of buying lunch from the school tuckshop.
School dinners were disgusting, but if we did not eat it we got fined—losing money from the pocket money we had for the tuck shop.
At my son's school, the tuck shop only supplies healthy food and juices.
I bought a drink from the tuck shop, which left me with no money at all.
He is good-humoured and popular, and has ambitions to run the school tuckshop.
Definition of tuck shop in US English:
tuck shop
noun
British informal
A shop, typically one on school premises, that sells candy, snacks, and soft drinks.
the tasty chips have proved popular with school tuck shops
Example sentencesExamples
They are particularly proud of their healthy tuck shop, which does a roaring trade in toast and orange juice.
Mondays provided me and my siblings with the post-weekend no-fresh-bread luxury of buying lunch from the school tuckshop.
He is good-humoured and popular, and has ambitions to run the school tuckshop.
The shop has already come up with fruit-based snacks for school tuck shops in the area.
School dinners were disgusting, but if we did not eat it we got fined—losing money from the pocket money we had for the tuck shop.
They are already keen to work with schools to develop food policies, run healthy tuck shops, and teach both pupils and staff more about how to eat a healthy balanced diet.
Whenever a prefect called, you had to run and if you were the first there you had to do a message like visiting the tuckshop for the prefect to buy him a pie.
The scheme is about, for instance getting schools to stock fruit and vegetables at the tuck shop instead of sweets.
I bought a drink from the tuck shop, which left me with no money at all.
At my son's school, the tuck shop only supplies healthy food and juices.