tuck box

1. 1.

   a box for storing eatables (especially at boarding school)

   Broaderbox

   United Kingdom

Questions about tuck box

What does tuck box mean?

tuck box means "a box for storing eatables (especially at boarding school)".

Is tuck box a common word?

tuck box is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.