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tanked, ppl. a.|tæŋkt|
[f. tank v.1 5 + -ed1.]
1. slang. Filled with (alcoholic) drink; intoxicated; occas. transf., drugged. Freq. with up. Also in phr. tanked to the wide (cf. wide n.) and in developed uses: completely intoxicated.
1893[see pub n. 1]. 1899A. M. Binstead Gal's Gossip 97 When my male parent, who was a free and frequent librator [sic], came home tanked up. 1917[see blotto a.]. 1932H. Simpson Boomerang ix. 183 Dawlish wrote poetry, and caused acute discomfort by reciting it aloud on starry nights when he was tanked up. 1964Wodehouse Frozen Assets iv. 77 If a fellow raised from rags to riches at the breakfast table isn't tanked to the uvula by nightfall, it simply means he hasn't been trying. 1968[see eyebrow 1 d]. 1977J. McClure Sunday Hangman xv. 178 He'd arrived half-tanked already.
2. colloq. Filled up, fuelled. Also fig.
1954A. Huxley Let. 5 Dec. (1969) 717 A child tanked up with sugar or glucose is likely to get through a party without untoward incidents. 1968R. Clapperton No News on Monday v. 49, I got the Riley tanked up and started the long haul from Sydney. 1973J. Drummond Bang! Bang! You're Dead xxxi. 107 We may need the trucks at any time, keep them tanked up. |