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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024tanked (tangkt),USA pronunciation adj. - put or stored in a tank.
- Slang TermsAlso, tanked′ up′. drunk.
WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024tank /tæŋk/USA pronunciation n. [countable]- a large container for holding a liquid or gas:a full tank of gas.
- Militaryan armored combat vehicle, moving on a belt of treads and usually armed with a cannon.
- Clothingtank top.
tank•ful, n. [countable], pl. -fuls. WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024tank (tangk),USA pronunciation n. - a large receptacle, container, or structure for holding a liquid or gas:tanks for storing oil.
- a natural or artificial pool, pond, or lake.
- Militaryan armored, self-propelled combat vehicle, armed with cannon and machine guns and moving on a caterpillar tread.
- Slang Termsa prison cell or enclosure for more than one occupant, as for prisoners awaiting a hearing.
- ClothingSee tank top.
- Sport 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.
v.t. - to put or store in a tank.
- tank up:
- to fill the gas tank of an automobile or other motor vehicle.
- Slang Termsto drink a great quantity of alcoholic beverage, esp. to intoxication.
- Slang Termsto do poorly or decline rapidly;
fail:The movie tanked at the box office.
- 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)
- Gujarati tānkh reservoir, lake, and Portuguese tanque, contraction of estanque pond, literally, something dammed up, derivative of estancar (
- perh. jointly 1610–20
+ v.i. - Slang Termsto do poorly or decline rapidly;
fail:The movie tanked at the box office.
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: tank /tæŋk/ n - a large container or reservoir for the storage of liquids or gases
- an armoured combat vehicle moving on tracks and armed with guns, etc, originally developed in World War I
- Brit US dialect a reservoir, lake, or pond
- slang chiefly US a jail
- Also called: tankful the quantity contained in a tank
- Austral a dam formed by excavation
vb - (transitive) to put or keep in a tank
- slang to defeat heavily
See also tank upEtymology: 17th Century: 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 |