mistucked

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English

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Etymology

From mis- +‎ tucked.

Adjective

mistucked (comparative more mistucked, superlative most mistucked)

  1. Incorrectly or inadequately tucked
    • 2013, Susan Choi, My Education:
      And so already on the very first day I'd encountered the odd contradiction, between the solemnly abstracted Brodeur of the classroom and the Brodeur of notoriety; between the hapless obviousness by that big hole in his pants—like the plumber's ass-crack, like the festive toilet-paper banner waving out of the back of a woman's mis-tucked pantyhose—and the vandal's dark glasses and duster he'd worn at the reading, items one could almost think he had purposely, childishly picked to fulfill others' worst expectations.
    • 2014, Malcolm Dorson, Octopus Summer, page 44:
      Whether it be a mistucked shirt, an uneven tie, or a ketchup stain on his houndstooth jacket, Ponzer always had something off.
    • 2014, Stasia Ward Kehoe, The Sound of Letting Go:
      He probably doesn't hold on to things like memories of mis-tucked second-grade skirts.