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noun
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a large receptacle, container, or structure for holding a liquid or gas: tanks for storing oil.
2.
a natural or artificial pool, pond, or lake.
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Military. an armored, self-propelled combat vehicle, armed with cannon and machine guns and moving on a caterpillar tread.
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Slang. a prison cell or enclosure for more than one occupant, as for prisoners awaiting a hearing.
verb (used with object)
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to put or store in a tank.
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Tanked up
is always a great word to know.
So is slumgullion. Does it mean:
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
| a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc. |
verb (used without object)
Verb phrase7.
Slang. to do poorly or decline rapidly; fail: The movie tanked at the box office.
8.
Idiomtank up,
a.
to fill the gas tank of an automobile or other motor vehicle.
b.
Slang. to drink a great quantity of alcoholic beverage, especially to intoxication.
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go in the tank, Boxing Slang. to go through the motions of a match but deliberately lose because of an illicit prearrangement or fix; throw a fight.
Origin:
1610–20; perhaps jointly < Gujarati tānkh reservoir, lake, and Portuguese tanque, contraction of estanque pond, literally, something dammed up, derivative of estancar (< Vulgar Latin *stanticāre) to dam up, weaken; adopted as a cover name for the military vehicle during the early stages of its manufacture in England (December, 1915)
1610–20; perhaps jointly < Gujarati tānkh reservoir, lake, and Portuguese tanque, contraction of estanque pond, literally, something dammed up, derivative of estancar (< Vulgar Latin *stanticāre) to dam up, weaken; adopted as a cover name for the military vehicle during the early stages of its manufacture in England (December, 1915)
Related forms
tank·less, adjective
tank·like, adjective
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tank
"to lose or fail," 1976, originally in tennis jargon, but said there to be from boxing, from tank (n.) in some sense. Tanked "drunk" is from 1893.
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