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tuckered out 

Gee whiz johnny, i had to work at starbucks at 5:30 this morning and im too tuckered out to be penetrated
tuckered out by Bobby Z August 22, 2006

tuckered out 

to be tired. also to be excited in a monotone for your wife/girlfriend or husband/boyfriend.
haley and austin were tuckered out after mini golf and boling with lexi and mason and haley and austin later played with tucker and kiwi there dogs...

Tuckered Out 

A child on new year's eve
That kid is tuckered out.

plumb tuckered out 

Exhausted.

Origin:
It's no surprise that 'tuckered out' is an American phrase. No 'B-feature' western from the 1930s and 1940s was complete without Gabby Hayes being 'plumb tuckered out'. Hayes' contribution to the genre was celebrated by Mel Brooks in the 1974 film Blazing Saddles. In that, a look-alike actor played the part of Gabby Johnson, spouting 'authentic frontier gibberish' - "dad gum it, I am gonna die here an' no sidewindin bushwackin, hornswaglin, cracker croaker is gonna rouin me biscuit cutter".

An example is from the Wisconsin Enquirer, April 1839:
"I reckoned to have got to the tavern by sundown, but I haven't - as I'm prodigiously tuckered out."

'Plumb tuckered out' is somewhat later and the first example is from the Cedar Rapids Evening Gazette, February 1889: "They'll get plumb tuckered out waitin."

The actual derivation of this phrase is quite prosaic. 'Tucker' is a colloquial New England word, coined in the early 19th century, meaning 'to tire' or 'to become weary'. 'Tuckered out' is just a straightforward use of that. 'Plumb' is just an intensifier. 'Tuckered out' is rarely seen alone.
"I've been on my feet all day long, I'm plumb tuckered out!"
plumb tuckered out by CajunQueen August 18, 2009

plum tuckered out 

term for exhausted that originates from the "Deep South" during the Civil War to the beginning and middle of the 20th Century.
Man, ohh, man! After working for twelve hours today, I feel so plum tuckered out.
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