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Places


United States

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Tucker, Arkansas Tucker is an Unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Jefferson County, Arkansas. It has an elevation of 226 ft (69 m) and is located southeast of Little Rock. It was first listed as a CDP in the 2020 census with a po ...
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Tucker, Georgia Tucker is a city located in DeKalb County, Georgia, United States, located near Atlanta and was originally settled in the 1820s, and later developed as a railroad community in 1892. According to the 2016 United States Census Bureau annual estimate ...
* Tucker, Mississippi * Tucker, Missouri * Tucker, Utah, ghost town *
Tucker County, West Virginia Tucker County is a county in the U.S. state of West Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 6,762, making it West Virginia's fourth-least populous county. Its county seat is Parsons. The county was created in 1856 from a part of ...


Outer space

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Tucker (crater) Tucker is a small lunar impact crater in the southern part of the Mare Smythii. It is located along the eastern limb of the Moon, and from the Earth it is seen nearly from the edge. It lies between the slightly larger crater Lebesgue to the northea ...
, a small lunar impact crater in the southern part of the Mare Smythii


People

* Tucker (given name), a page for people with the given name "Tucker" *
Tucker (surname) Tucker is a surname of disputed origin. Possible derivation of the name The origin of the name is not entirely certain, but since it has a long history as a surname on the continent, as in England and from thereon, also in the United States, it ...
, a page for people with the last name "Tucker" *
Tucker (American wrestler) Levi Rolla Cooper (born July 24, 1990) is an American Professional wrestling, professional wrestler, best known for his time in WWE, where he performed under the ring name Tucker. After signing with WWE in 2013, he was assigned to their Farm tea ...
* Tucker (Northern Irish wrestler)


Art, entertainment, and media


Fictional entities

*Tucker, a Shetland pony in the film, ''
Racing Stripes ''Racing Stripes'' is a 2005 American sports comedy family film directed by Frederik Du Chau. The film was produced by Andrew A. Kosove, Broderick Johnson, Lloyd Phillips and Edward L. McDonnell, based on a script written by David Schmidt, Stev ...
'' *Tucker Crowe, the fictional reclusive singer-songwriter in Nick Hornby's novel '' Juliet, Naked'' *
Tucker Foley The series '' Danny Phantom'' centers on young Danny Fenton and his coming-of-age story as a half-ghost superhero in the town of Amity Park. Over the course of the series, he betters both himself and his powers as he deals with ghosts, balancin ...
, one of the titular character's best friends on the animated series ''Danny Phantom'' *
Tucker Jenkins Peter "Tucker" Jenkins is a main character of British children's drama series ''Grange Hill'', who appeared as a main cast member in the first four seasons. He would later guest appear in the show throughout its thirty-season run and would feat ...
, played by actor Todd Carty in the BBC television series ''Grange Hill'' and spin-off ''Tucker's Luck'' * Cameron Tucker, fictional character in the television series ''Modern Family'' *Tucker Williams, a.k.a. Mega Boy, from the film ''
Zoom Zoom may refer to: Technology Computing * Zoom (software), videoconferencing application * Page zooming, the ability to magnify or shrink a portion of a page on a computer display * Zooming user interface, a graphical interface allowing for image ...
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Cale Tucker ''Titan A.E.'' is a 2000 American animated science fiction film directed by Don Bluth and Gary Goldman, and starring Matt Damon, Bill Pullman, John Leguizamo, Nathan Lane, Janeane Garofalo and Drew Barrymore. Its title refers to the spacecraft ...
, the main protagonist of the 2000 animated sci-fi epic film ''Titan A.E.'' *Amos Tucker, fictional character portrayed by Tim Conway in the movie ''
The Apple Dumpling Gang ''The Apple Dumpling Gang'' is a 1971 novel by Jack Bickham, about a group of orphaned children during the California gold rush. They encounter a gambler who reluctantly helps them, as well as a pair of hapless robbers who are after the gold ...
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Trip Tucker Charles "Trip" Tucker III, portrayed by Connor Trinneer, is a fictional character in the television series ''Star Trek: Enterprise''. Tucker was the chief engineer on the ''Enterprise'' and also briefly served in the same role aboard the Ente ...
, fictional character on ''Star Trek: Enterprise'' *Lavernius Tucker, fictional character in the machinima science fiction comedy video series '' Red vs. Blue'' *Libby Tucker, the character played by Dinah Manoff in Neil Simon's play ''
I Ought to Be in Pictures ''I Ought to Be in Pictures'' is a comedy drama play written by Neil Simon, his 18th. The play opened on Broadway in 1980. It was subsequently made into a film, released in 1982. The play involves a film screenwriter who has abandoned his famil ...
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Malcolm Tucker Malcolm Tucker is the fictional antihero of the BBC political satire ''The Thick of It'', portrayed by Peter Capaldi. He is the Director of Communications for his party in both Government and Opposition, acting as the Prime Minister's chief e ...
, master of spin in Armando Iannucci's ''The Thick of It'' and ''In the Loop'' *
Nina Tucker Nina Tucker is a fictional character from the Australian soap opera ''Neighbours'', played by Delta Goodrem. She made her first screen appearance during the episode broadcast on 11 June 2002. Goodrem was approached by producers after they saw he ...
, fictional character in the TV series ''Neighbours'' *Tucker/Norm Phipps, a character in the 1998 movie ''
There's Something About Mary ''There's Something About Mary'' is a 1998 American romantic comedy film directed by Peter Farrelly and Bobby Farrelly. It stars Cameron Diaz as the title character with Ben Stiller, Matt Dillon, Lee Evans, and Chris Elliott all playing men w ...
'' *Tucker's, the club in the ''
Black Mirror ''Black Mirror'' is a British anthology television series created by Charlie Brooker. Individual episodes explore a diversity of genres, but most are set in near-future dystopias with science fiction technology—a type of speculative fiction ...
'' episode, "San Junipero", where Yorkie and Kelly first meet


Film and television

* '' Tucker: The Man and His Dream'', film about Preston Tucker * ''Tucker'' (2000 TV series), a 2000–2001 American television series that aired on NBC * ''Tucker'' (2005 TV program), a 2005–2008 American television program, previously called ''The Situation with Tucker Carlson'', hosted by Tucker Carlson that aired on MSNBC ** ''
Tucker Carlson Tonight ''Tucker Carlson Tonight'' is an American talk show and current affairs program hosted by conservative commentator Tucker Carlson on the television network Fox News. The show premiered in November 2016 and includes political commentary, monolog ...
'', the Fox News program currently hosted by Tucker Carlson * ''
Tucker's Luck ''Tucker's Luck'' is a British television series made by the BBC between 1983 and 1985. The series is a spin-off from the school drama ''Grange Hill'' and capitalised on the popularity of one of the series' original characters – Peter "Tucker ...
'', a British television series starring Todd Carty as Tucker that aired on BBC


Brands and enterprises

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Tucker 48 The Tucker 48, commonly referred to as the Tucker Torpedo, was an automobile conceived by Preston Tucker while in Ypsilanti, Michigan and briefly produced in Chicago, Illinois in 1948. Only 51 cars were made including their prototype before the c ...
, also nicknamed "Tucker Torpedo", a 1948 sedan automobile *
Tucker Sno-Cat The Tucker Sno-Cat is a family of tracked vehicles for snow conditions, manufactured in Medford, Oregon by the company of the same name. Different models have been used for expeditions in the Arctic and the Antarctic during the second half of ...
, manufacturer of snowcats


Ships

* USS ''Henry W. Tucker'', name of more than one United States Navy ship * USS ''Tucker'', name of more than one United States Navy ship


Other uses

* Tucker (dog), scat detection dog * Tucker, a practitioner of
fulling Fulling, also known as felting, tucking or walking ( Scots: ''waukin'', hence often spelled waulking in Scottish English), is a step in woollen clothmaking which involves the cleansing of woven or knitted cloth (particularly wool) to elimin ...
, a step in the processing of woolen cloth *
Bush tucker Bush tucker, also called bush food, is any food native to Australia and used as sustenance by Indigenous Australians, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, but it can also describe any native flora or fauna used for culinary or ...
, Australian expression for food obtained from native plants and animals *
Tucker bag Tucker may refer to: Places United States * Tucker, Arkansas * Tucker, Georgia * Tucker, Mississippi * Tucker, Missouri * Tucker, Utah, ghost town * Tucker County, West Virginia Outer space * Tucker (crater), a small lunar impact crater in th ...
, tucker box, historically used by travelers in the Australian outback *
Tucker decomposition In mathematics, Tucker decomposition decomposes a tensor into a set of matrices and one small core tensor. It is named after Ledyard R. Tucker although it goes back to Hitchcock in 1927. Initially described as a three-mode extension of factor an ...
, mathematical decomposition for tensors * Tuckerization, act of using a person's name in an original story as an in-joke {{Disambiguation, geo, given name English masculine given names