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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: having tucked or being tucked; "tightly tucked blankets"; "a fancy tucked shirt" [ant: untucked]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Tuck Tuck, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tucked; p. pr. & vb. n. Tucking.] [OE. tukken, LG. tukken to pull up, tuck up, entice; akin to OD. tocken to entice, G. zucken to draw with a short and quick motion, and E. tug. See Tug.] 1. To draw up; to shorten; to fold under; to press into a narrower compass; as, to tuck the bedclothes in; to tuck up one's sleeves. 2. To make a tuck or tucks in; as, to tuck a dress. 3. To inclose; to put within; to press into a close place; as, to tuck a child into a bed; to tuck a book under one's arm, or into a pocket. 4. [Perhaps originally, to strike, beat: cf. F. toquer to touch. Cf. Tocsin.] To full, as cloth. [Prov. Eng.]

Moby Thesaurus

creased, crimped, dog-eared, doubled, flexible, flounced, fluted, foldable, folded, folding, gathered, plaited, pleated, pliable, plicate, plicated, plicatile, quilled, ruffled, twilled