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T0036800 (tăngk)n.1. a. A large, often metallic container for holding or storing liquids or gases.b. The amount that this container can hold: buy a tank of gas.2. A usually artificial pool, pond, reservoir, or cistern, especially one used to hold water for drinking or for irrigation.3. A usually glass-walled container in which live fish, reptiles, or other animals are kept.4. An enclosed, heavily armored combat vehicle that is armed with cannon and machine guns and moves on continuous tracks.5. A tank top.6. Slang A jail or jail cell.v. tanked, tank·ing, tanks v.tr. To place, store, or process in a tank.v.intr. Informal To suffer a sudden decline or failure: The stock market tanked yesterday.Phrasal Verb: tank up1. Slang To drink to the point of intoxication.2. To fill the tank of a motor vehicle with gasoline.Idiom: in the tank1. In reserve: a runner who didn't have enough in the tank to hold the lead.2. In a state of decline or failure: Stocks have been in the tank for months.3. Enthusiastically partial; strongly favoring: a reporter accused of being in the tank for a candidate.

[Partly from an Indic source such as Gujarati ṭāṃkhī, cistern, and ṭāṃkhī,ṃ, reservoir, or Marathi ṭāṃkeṃ, cistern, reservoir (all from Prakrit ṭaṅka, ditch, reservoir, of unknown origin) and partly from Portuguese tanque, reservoir (variant of estanque, from estancar, to dam up, from Vulgar Latin *stanticāre; see stanch¹). Noun, sense 4, from the fact that in WWI the British army tried to conceal the development and transport of such armored vehicles by referring to them as water tanks in documents and communications.]

tank′ful′ (-fo͝ol′) n.

tank up

vb (adverb) 1. to fill the tank of (a vehicle) with petrol2. slang to imbibe or cause to imbibe a large quantity of alcoholic drink

Thesaurus

tank up

verbSlang. To take alcoholic liquor, especially excessively or habitually:drink, guzzle, imbibe, tipple.Informal: nip, soak.Slang: booze, lush.Idioms: bend the elbow, hit the bottle .

Translations

fare il pieno

tank up

tank up (on something)

1. To fill the fuel tank of a vehicle (with a particular type of fuel). We'll need to tank up before we get on the highway tomorrow. I'm going to tank up on gas at the next rest stop.2. To eat or drink (something) until one is full. We're going to be having dinner soon, so don't tank up on chips and candy. We stopped halfway to tank up on trail mix and water.3. To drink alcohol to the point of intoxication. Don't tank up during lunch—we don't want any mistakes during the meeting this afternoon. He just sat silently at the bar, tanking up on whiskey and soda.4. To ply someone with alcohol to the point of intoxication. In this usage, a noun or pronoun can be used between "tank" and "up." It was my 21st birthday, so my friends tanked me up on all manner of liquor. Someone spiked the punch to try to tank up the entire auditorium of students.5. Of a substance, to cause someone to become intoxicated due to having been ingested. In this usage, a noun or pronoun is used between "tank" and "up." Wow, that cocktail you made me really tanked me up!See also: tank, up

tank up

(on something) and tank up with something 1. Lit. to fill one's fuel tank with something. I need to tank up on premium gas to stop this engine knock. It's time to stop and tank up. We need to tank up with gas. 2. Sl. to drink some kind of alcoholic beverage. toby spent the evening tanking up on bourbon. Jerry tanked up with gin and went to sleep.See also: tank, up

tank up

1. Fill a gas tank with fuel, as in As soon as we tank up the car we can leave. [First half of 1900s] 2. Drink to the point of intoxication. F. Scott Fitzgerald used this expression in The Great Gatsby (1926): "I think he'd tanked up a good deal at luncheon." This expression often is put in the passive, meaning "be or become intoxicated," as in My roommate really got tanked up last night. [Slang; c. 1900] See also: tank, up

tank up

v.1. To fill the tank of a motor vehicle with gasoline: Gas prices are so high, I can barely afford to tank up. Don't tank up with low-quality gasoline.2. To eat, drink, or accumulate a supply of food or drink: Midway through the hike, we stopped by a stream to tank up on water. The travelers pulled into a roadside diner and tanked up.3. Slang To intoxicate someone: Someone poured a bottle of vodka in the punch and tanked up the unsuspecting partygoers. The kids got tanked up on soda pop and ran around in the yard. Many of the revelers were too tanked up to drive home.4. Slang To drink to the point of intoxication: The losing team is tanking up at the bar.5. Slang To be consumed to the point of intoxicating someone: That last glass of whiskey really tanked me up.See also: tank, up

tank up

verbSee tankSee also: tank, up

单词	tank up
释义	tank up tank T0036800 (tăngk)n.1. a. A large, often metallic container for holding or storing liquids or gases.b. The amount that this container can hold: buy a tank of gas.2. A usually artificial pool, pond, reservoir, or cistern, especially one used to hold water for drinking or for irrigation.3. A usually glass-walled container in which live fish, reptiles, or other animals are kept.4. An enclosed, heavily armored combat vehicle that is armed with cannon and machine guns and moves on continuous tracks.5. A tank top.6. Slang A jail or jail cell.v. tanked, tank·ing, tanks v.tr. To place, store, or process in a tank.v.intr. Informal To suffer a sudden decline or failure: The stock market tanked yesterday.Phrasal Verb: *tank up1. Slang* To drink to the point of intoxication.2. To fill the tank of a motor vehicle with gasoline.Idiom: *in the tank1. In reserve: a runner who didn't have enough in the tank to hold the lead.2. In a state of decline or failure: Stocks have been in the tank for months.3. Enthusiastically partial; strongly favoring: a reporter accused of being in the tank for a candidate. [Partly from an Indic source such as Gujarati ṭāṃkhī, cistern, and ṭāṃkhī,ṃ, reservoir, or Marathi ṭāṃkeṃ, cistern, reservoir* (all from Prakrit ṭaṅka, ditch, reservoir, of unknown origin) and partly from Portuguese tanque, reservoir (variant of estanque, from estancar, to dam up, from Vulgar Latin stanticāre; see stanch¹). Noun, sense 4, from the fact that in WWI the British army tried to conceal the development and transport of such armored vehicles by referring to them as water tanks in documents and communications.] tank′ful′* (-fo͝ol′) n. tank up vb (adverb) 1. to fill the tank of (a vehicle) with petrol2. slang to imbibe or cause to imbibe a large quantity of alcoholic drink Thesaurus tank up verbSlang. To take alcoholic liquor, especially excessively or habitually:drink, guzzle, imbibe, tipple.Informal: nip, soak.Slang: booze, lush.Idioms: bend the elbow, hit the bottle . Translations fare il pieno tank up tank up (on something) 1. To fill the fuel tank of a vehicle (with a particular type of fuel). We'll need to tank up before we get on the highway tomorrow. I'm going to tank up on gas at the next rest stop.2. To eat or drink (something) until one is full. We're going to be having dinner soon, so don't tank up on chips and candy. We stopped halfway to tank up on trail mix and water.3. To drink alcohol to the point of intoxication. Don't tank up during lunch—we don't want any mistakes during the meeting this afternoon. He just sat silently at the bar, tanking up on whiskey and soda.4. To ply someone with alcohol to the point of intoxication. In this usage, a noun or pronoun can be used between "tank" and "up." It was my 21st birthday, so my friends tanked me up on all manner of liquor. Someone spiked the punch to try to tank up the entire auditorium of students.5. Of a substance, to cause someone to become intoxicated due to having been ingested. In this usage, a noun or pronoun is used between "tank" and "up." Wow, that cocktail you made me really tanked me up!See also: tank, up tank up (on something) and tank up with something 1. Lit. to fill one's fuel tank with something. I need to tank up on premium gas to stop this engine knock. It's time to stop and tank up. We need to tank up with gas. 2. Sl. to drink some kind of alcoholic beverage. toby spent the evening tanking up on bourbon. Jerry tanked up with gin and went to sleep.See also: tank, up tank up 1. Fill a gas tank with fuel, as in As soon as we tank up the car we can leave. [First half of 1900s] 2. Drink to the point of intoxication. F. Scott Fitzgerald used this expression in The Great Gatsby (1926): "I think he'd tanked up a good deal at luncheon." This expression often is put in the passive, meaning "be or become intoxicated," as in My roommate really got tanked up last night. [Slang; c. 1900] See also: tank, up tank up v.1. To fill the tank of a motor vehicle with gasoline: Gas prices are so high, I can barely afford to tank up. Don't tank up with low-quality gasoline.2. To eat, drink, or accumulate a supply of food or drink: Midway through the hike, we stopped by a stream to tank up on water. The travelers pulled into a roadside diner and tanked up.3. Slang To intoxicate someone: Someone poured a bottle of vodka in the punch and tanked up the unsuspecting partygoers. The kids got tanked up on soda pop and ran around in the yard. Many of the revelers were too tanked up to drive home.4. Slang To drink to the point of intoxication: The losing team is tanking up at the bar.5. Slang To be consumed to the point of intoxicating someone: That last glass of whiskey really tanked me up.See also: tank, up tank up verbSee tankSee also: tank, up EncyclopediaSeeTankMedicalSeetank tank up verb Synonyms for tank up verb to take alcoholic liquor, especially excessively or habitually Synonyms drink guzzle imbibe tipple nip soak booze lush
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Synonyms for tank up

verb to take alcoholic liquor, especially excessively or habitually

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