Definitions for tank

• Definition
• Anagrams (25)

tank tank

Spelling: [tangk]

IPA: /tæŋk/

Tank is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 25 anagrams from letters in tank (aknt).

Definitions for tank

noun

1. a large receptacle, container, or structure for holding a liquid or gas:
2. a natural or artificial pool, pond, or lake.
3. Military. an armored, self-propelled combat vehicle, armed with cannon and machine guns and moving on a caterpillar tread.
4. Slang. a prison cell or enclosure for more than one occupant, as for prisoners awaiting a hearing.
5. tank top.

Idioms

1. 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.
2. in the tank, Slang. failing, doing poorly, or declining: favoring, colluding, or assisting in a partisan way (often followed by with or for):

Verb phrases

1. tank up, to fill the gas tank of an automobile or other motor vehicle. Slang. to drink a great quantity of alcoholic beverage, especially to intoxication.

verb (used with object)

1. to put or store in a tank.

verb (used without object)

1. Slang. to do poorly or decline rapidly; fail:

Origin of tank

1610-20; perhaps jointly Gujarati tānkh reservoir, lake, and Portuguese tanque, contraction of estanque pond, literally, something dammed up, derivative of estancar (Vulgar Latin *stanticāre)

Examples for tank

Peters clubbed Tremont's foot from the tank rack he had hooked with the toe.

tank Battle Jeep Guard Crush -- some editorial changes and the removal of all blood when the guards are crushed by the tank.

"Look at that dog-fish," said Vavasor, pointing to the largest in the tank.

Tougher regulations on tank cars and oil-by-rail make sense.

For a moment he fancied the tank must be empty, for nothing came of his efforts.

He appears to think that so distinguished a criminal should have been ducked in a tank of rosewater.

If it is the tank, then it looks reasonably intact, suggesting it did not fail.

The lad had plunged, they said, into a tank at Les Fondettes.

tank Battle Kim's death -- a clean version of Kim's Face shot (no head burning or head exploding).

In battle, it means the ability to shift from suicide bombers to tank columns and maneuver warfare in the span of a day.