tank up

tank  (tngk)

n.

1.

a. A large, often metallic container for holding or storing liquids or gases.

b. The amount that this container can hold: buy a tank of gas.

2. A usually artificial pool, pond, reservoir, or cistern, especially one used to hold water for drinking or for irrigation.

3. An enclosed, heavily armored combat vehicle that is armed with cannon and machine guns and moves on continuous tracks.

4. A tank top.

5. Slang A jail or jail cell.

v. tanked, tank·ing, tanks

v.tr.

To place, store, or process in a tank.

v.intr.

Slang To suffer a sudden decline or failure: "Steady investors . . . kept their heads when the stock market tanked in October 1987" (Burton G. Malkiel).

Phrasal Verb:

tank up

1. Slang To drink to the point of intoxication.

2. To fill the tank of a motor vehicle with gasoline.

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[Partly from Gujarati tnkh, cistern (from Sanskrit taga, pond, perhaps of Dravidian origin) and partly from Portuguese tanque, reservoir (variant of estanque, from estancar, to dam up, from Vulgar Latin *stanticre; see stanch¹).]

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tankful (-fl) n.

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tank up

vb (adverb) Chiefly Brit

1. to fill the tank of (a vehicle) with petrol

2. Slang to imbibe or cause to imbibe a large quantity of alcoholic drink

Translations

? tank up

vi

(ship, plane) → auftanken; (car, driver) → volltanken, auftanken

(Brit inf, = get drunk) → sich volllaufen lassen (inf)

vt sep

ship, plane → auftanken; car → volltanken, auftanken

(Brit inf) to get tanked up → sich volllaufen lassen (inf) → (on mit); to be tanked up → voll sein (inf)