"tuck under" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe the action of folding something underneath another object. For example, "I tucked my shirt under the bed so it wouldn't be visible."
Stools tuck under skinny counters embedded with electrical sockets.
"Our concern is if he was to dive and tuck under again," Girardi said.
Talitha would tuck under his right arm, Emmanuella under his left, and he would debrief them on their days.
Because regular top sheets are difficult to tuck under the mattress and easily come loose, manufacturers have designed top and bottom sheets in one.
Alexander's seats are a streamlined version of the ladder-back chairs that still tuck under the kitchen table in many country homes.
Auditorium chairs should tuck under the stage, so it can double as a gym; mats hanging on the walls save space and enhance safety.
In the earthquake simulation conducted Dec. 21 at UC Berkeley's Richmond Field Station, the full-scale building with tuck-under parking experienced the same ground motions recorded during the 1994 Northridge earthquake.
In the Northridge quake, 24 people died as a result of damage to woodframe buildings, including 16 people in one building with tuck-under parking in the Northridge Meadows apartment complex.
The tuck-under parking design dominates multi-unit residential buildings in the East Bay, particularly in Berkeley and Oakland, said Richard Eisner, regional administrator of the California Office of Emergency Services.
"Current seismic building codes call for these woodframe structures with tuck-under parking to be built with steel frames, but as a retrofit, that had never been put to the test until last week". Mosalam attributed the building's performance on Dec. 12 to the retrofitting and, in large part, to the finish materials that stiffened the structure's walls and joints.
"We'll be using results from these tests to evaluate existing retrofit ordinances and to develop improved building codes and standards". During the 1960s and early 1970s, tens of thousands of woodframe, multi-unit residential buildings were constructed with tuck-under parking in California as a way to use space more efficiently.
