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tank

   [tangk]
noun
1.
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.
3.
Military. an armored, self-propelled combat vehicle, armed with cannon and machine guns and moving on a caterpillar tread.
4.
Slang. a prison cell or enclosure for more than one occupant, as for prisoners awaiting a hearing.
5.
tank top.
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verb (used with object)
6.
to put or store in a tank.

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verb (used without object)
7.
Slang. to do poorly or decline rapidly; fail: The movie tanked at the box office.
Verb phrase
8.
tank 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.
Idiom
9.
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)

Related forms
tank·less, adjective
tank·like, adjective
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tank (tæŋk)
 
—n
1.  a large container or reservoir for the storage of liquids or gases: tanks for storing oil
2.  a.  an armoured combat vehicle moving on tracks and armed with guns, etc, originally developed in World War I
 b.  (as modifier): a tank commander; a tank brigade
3.  dialect (Brit), (US) a reservoir, lake, or pond
4.  photog
 a.  a light-tight container inside which a film can be processed in daylight, the solutions and rinsing waters being poured in and out without light entering
 b.  any large dish or container used for processing a number of strips or sheets of film
5.  slang chiefly (US)
 a.  a jail
 b.  a jail cell
6.  Also called: tankful the quantity contained in a tank
7.  (Austral) a dam formed by excavation
 
—vb
8.  (tr) to put or keep in a tank
9.  (intr) to move like a tank, esp heavily and rapidly
10.  slang to defeat heavily
11.  informal (intr) to fail, esp commercially
 
[C17: from Gujarati tānkh artificial lake, but influenced also by Portuguese tanque, from estanque pond, from estancar to dam up, from Vulgar Latin stanticāre (unattested) to block, stanch]
 
'tankless
 
—adj
 
'tanklike
 
—adj

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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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tank definition


  1. in.
    and tank up. to drink too much beer; to drink to excess. : Let's go out this Friday and tank a while.
  2. n.
    a drunkard. (Usually tank-up.) : You're turning into a real tank, Harry.
  3. n.
    a jail cell for holding drunks. : One night in the tank was enough to make John take the pledge.
  4. tv. & in.
    to lose a game deliberately. : The manager got wind of a plan to tank Friday's game.
  5. in.
    for something to fail. : The entire stock market tanked on Friday.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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