tuck shop

• tuck-shop, tuckshop

From tuck (“snack food”) + shop.

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tuck shop (plural tuck shops)

1. (UK, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Canada, India) A shop selling confectionery, especially one in or near a school.
   • 1989, Jenny Ridgwell, Louise Davies, Skills in Home Economics: Technology, Heinemann Educational Publishers, page 11:

     One way is to make the sandwiches then choose the three most popular sandwiches to sell in the tuck shop.

   • 1996, K. S. Sidhu, “School Organisation And Administration”, in India, Sterling Publishers, page 90:

     If possible a school must have a place for a tuck shop.

   • 2005, Susan K. Moore, I Remember Bare Bottoms and Stinging Nettles‎, page 108:

     You had a small amount of pocket money and this increased as you went along and there was a tuck shop where you could spend your earnings. […] I became a senior boy and then a pefect and it became my responsibility to run the tuck shop.

   • 2009, R. Burger, B. P. Carels, S. Els, FET College Series: Life Orientation: NCV 4, South Africa: Pearson Education, page 163:

     In this case, the problem is that the tuck-shop has stopped making money and will have to close if you can′t find out what is wrong.

   • 2009, Maria Cross, Barbara MacDonald, Nutrition in Institutions, UK: Wiley, page 49:

     However, a trend for healthier tuck shops, selling fruit in particular, had already emerged a few years before legislation was introduced.

   • 2011, Peter May, The Blackhouse, UK: Quercus, page 23:

     ‘That note you′re holding is an order for the Crobost Stores, to restock the tuck shop.’

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:tuck shop.

In some English-speaking regions, like Australia, tuck shops also sell hot meals, being similar to a canteen or cafeteria.