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Universal
1a large receptacle or storage chamber, especially for liquid or gas. the container holding the fuel supply in a motor vehicle: the trucks all had a full tank of gasoline a receptacle with transparent sides in which to keep fish; an aquarium. Indian &
Australian/
NZ a reservoir.
2a heavy armoured fighting vehicle carrying guns and moving on a continuous articulated metal track.
4North American informal a cell in a police station or jail.
1 [no object] fill the tank of a vehicle with fuel:the cars stopped to tank up (
be/get tanked up)
British informal drink heavily; become drunk:they get tanked up before the game
2 [no object] US informal fail completely, especially at great financial cost: the previous movie had tanked at the box office [with object] North American informal (in sport) deliberately lose or fail to finish (a match): the powerful baseliner had tanked the match
3 [with object] informal, chiefly
Scottish defeat heavily:Rangers tanked the local side 8-0
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noun (plural tankfuls)-
adjective