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Grammar : Adj
Spell : tangkt
Phonetic Transcription : tæŋkt



Definition of tanked

Origin :
  • "to lose or fail," 1976, originally in tennis jargon, but said there to be from boxing, from tank (n.) in some sense. Related: Tanked; tanking. Adjective tanked "drunk" is from 1893.
  • As in intoxicated : adj drunk
  • As in plastered : adj drunk
  • As in soused : adj drunk
  • As in stoned : adj high on alcohol or drugs
  • As in wasted : adj high on drugs
  • As in zonked : adj drunk, intoxicated; stunned
  • As in loaded : adj intoxicated
  • As in wrecked : adj intoxicated
  • As in under the influence : adj drunk or less than drunk
  • As in bombed : adj drunk
  • As in boozed : adj drunk
  • As in boozy : adj drunk
  • As in crapulent : adj drunk
  • As in crapulous : adj drunk
  • As in crocked : adj drunk
  • As in looped : adj drunk
  • As in pickled : adj drunk
  • As in potted : adj drunk
  • As in sloshed : adj drunk
  • As in stewed : adj drunk
  • As in stinko : adj drunk
  • As in drunk : adj intoxicated by alcohol
  • As in high : adj intoxicated, drugged
Example sentences :
  • In the ordinary morning ablutions they tanked without suffocating.
  • Extract from : « Hard Cash » by Charles Reade
  • They tanked her cruel they did, and kept her under water till she was nigh gone.
  • Extract from : « Hard Cash » by Charles Reade
  • She visited the tanked one, found her in a cold room after it, shivering like ague, and her teeth chattering.
  • Extract from : « Hard Cash » by Charles Reade
  • He never could imbibe enough and, when tanked full, contentedly resigned to her the right to rule.
  • Extract from : « On the Mexican Highlands » by William Seymour Edwards
  • The substance of her answer was, that she could do everything under the sun, provided she were not “tanked” after.
  • Extract from : « Johnny Ludlow, Second Series » by Mrs. Henry Wood
  • These are thoroly mixed and then filtered under pressure and tanked and aged.
  • Extract from : « Handwork in Wood » by William Noyes
  • After storing several years it is known commercially as “tanked oil,” and has a high value in varnish-making.
  • Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 16, Slice 6 » by Various

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