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tank
[ tangk ]
noun
- a large receptacle, container, or structure for holding a liquid or gas:
tanks for storing oil.
- a natural or artificial pool, pond, or lake.
- Military. an armored, self-propelled combat vehicle, armed with cannon and machine guns and moving on a caterpillar tread.
- (in a video game) a category of job classes in a role-playing game, best suited to withstand large amounts of damage from an enemy: DD ( def 2 ), healer ( def 3 ).
The only decent tank in this game is Warrior, just because the cooldown period for the Paladin and Dark Knight skills is way too long.
- Slang. a prison cell or enclosure for more than one occupant, as for prisoners awaiting a hearing.
verb (used with object)
- to put or store in a tank.
- (in a video game) to provoke and hold the attention of (an enemy character) so that it does not target other player characters in the party who are less able to withstand large amounts of damage:
If you’re properly tanking this boss, you’ll never let him face your mages.
verb (used without object)
- Slang. to do poorly or decline rapidly; fail:
The movie tanked at the box office.
verb phrase
- to fill the gas tank of an automobile or other motor vehicle.
- Slang. to drink a great quantity of alcoholic beverage, especially to intoxication.
tank
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noun
- a large container or reservoir for the storage of liquids or gases
tanks for storing oil
- an armoured combat vehicle moving on tracks and armed with guns, etc, originally developed in World War I
- ( as modifier )
a tank commander
a tank brigade
- dialect.a reservoir, lake, or pond
- photog
- 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
- any large dish or container used for processing a number of strips or sheets of film
- slang.
- a jail
- a jail cell
- Also calledtankful the quantity contained in a tank
- a dam formed by excavation
verb
- tr to put or keep in a tank
- intr to move like a tank, esp heavily and rapidly
- slang.to defeat heavily
- informal.intr to fail, esp commercially
Derived Forms
- ˈٲˌ, adjective
- ˈٲ, adjective
Other yvlog Forms
- ٲ· adjective
- ٲ· adjective
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of tank1
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of tank1
Idioms and Phrases
- go in / into 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.
- in the tank, Slang.
- failing, doing poorly, or declining:
His grades were in the tank last quarter.
- favoring, colluding, or assisting in a partisan way (often followed by with or for ):
The talk-show host was in the tank with the Green Party.
More idioms and phrases containing tank
In addition to the idiom beginning with tank , also see think tank .Example Sentences
It’s been harder than they expected: “What the truth will actually do is tank your career, eradicate your remaining interpersonal relationships, bash your skull in with a baseball bat, and then set you free.”
Maybe they’ve all got a little sugar hidden in their tank.
In contrast, right-wing content creators are frequently embedded within a well-funded ecosystem, backed by think tanks, billionaire donors, and political organizations that provide research, staff, and media connections.
Wang Huiyao, a former China Communist Party member who works with the Center for China and Globalisation think tank, called on Asian countries to "work together to go through this difficult time and fight protectionism".
According to the Institute for Public Policy Research think tank, Jaguar Land Rover and the Mini factory in Cowley, Oxford, appear to be the most exposed to US tariffs on cars.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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