bib and tucker

noun

1. clothes:

   to dress in one's best bib and tucker.

bib and tucker

noun

1. informal.
   an outfit of clothes (esp in the phrase best bib and tucker )

Word History and Origins

Origin of bib and tucker¹

First recorded in 1740–50

Example Sentences

A party of young fellows belonging to the Cabin conceived the happy idea of dressing up Don Jaime Morin as a bib-and-tucker young lady.

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He arrived this morning, and we were all at the station in our best bib-and-tucker and making a fine show of being offhanded and light-hearted.

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Your bib-and-tucker days abolished, Your manners and your nails are polished.

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On such a day the whole world greets one cleansed and having on a fresh bib-and-tucker.

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O, for God's sake, drop that bib-and-tucker twaddle!

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