tuck away

tuck away

vb (tr, adverb) Informal

1. to eat (a large amount of food)

2. to store, esp in a place difficult to find

Thesaurus

Verb

1.

tuck away - eat up; usually refers to a considerable quantity of food; "My son tucked in a whole pizza" tuck in, put away eat up, polish off, finish - finish eating all the food on one's plate or on the table; "She polished off the remaining potatoes"

Translations

? tuck away

vt sep

(= hide) → wegstecken; he tucked it away in his pocket → er steckte es in die Tasche; the hut is tucked away among the trees → die Hütte liegt versteckt zwischen den Bäumen

(inf, = eat) he can certainly tuck it away! → er kann ganz schön was wegputzen (inf); I can’t think where he tucks it all away → ich weiß nicht, wo er das alles lässt (inf)