Definitions for tanked

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Spelling: [tangkt]
IPA: /tæŋkt/

Tanked is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 112 anagrams from letters in tanked (adeknt).

Definitions for tanked

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):

adjective

  1. put or stored in a tank.
  2. Also, tanked up. Slang. drunk.

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 tanked

First recorded in 1895-1900; tank + -ed2

Examples for tanked

Indeed, my afternoon mental focus after a run was about 11% higher, compared to a healthy lunch that tanked my mind by about 9%.

The substance of her answer was, that she could do everything under the sun, provided she were not “tanked” after.

In the ordinary morning ablutions they tanked without suffocating.

Last month Cloud Atlas, her most recent film, tanked at the box office.

In 2007, Across the Universe, a musical created around the songs of the Beatles, tanked.

She visited the tanked one, found her in a cold room after it, shivering like ague, and her teeth chattering.

He never could imbibe enough and, when tanked full, contentedly resigned to her the right to rule.

He tanked with right-wing voters because he made the fatal error of showing some humanity to the children of illegal immigrants.

They tanked her cruel they did, and kept her under water till she was nigh gone.

After Rollerball tanked, things hit a snag for Klein, resulting in a two-year gap in his acting resume from 2003-05.

Word Value for tanked
Scrable

11

Words with friends

12

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