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Verb: tuck up
  1. [Brit, informal] To put someone, especially a child, into bed comfortably
    "She tucked up the children before reading them a bedtime story"
     
  2. To make something shorter or neater by folding or rolling and securing it
    "He tucked up his trousers before wading through the stream"

Derived forms: tucking up, tucks up, tucked up