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drunk tanks

drunk tanks is the plural of drunk tank.

Meaning of drunk tank

Noun

drunk tank (plural drunk tanks)

  1. (slang) A cell where people who have been arrested for public drunkenness are detained until they are sober.
    • [I]f you're honest enough you might end up in the drunk-tank 15 or 20 times and lose a few jobs and a wife or 2 or maybe slug somebody in the streets and sleep on a park bench now and then […].1962, Charles Bukowski, “letter”, in On Writing, Canongate, published 2016, page 57

Questions about drunk tanks

What is drunk tanks the plural of?
Drunk tanks is the plural of drunk tank.

Words near drunk tanks in the dictionary

  1. drunk one's own Kool-Aid
  2. drunk out
  3. drunk someone under the table
  4. drunk something like lemonade
  5. drunk tank
  6. drunk tanks
  7. drunk text
  8. drunk texted
  9. drunk texting
  10. drunk texts
  11. drunk the Kool Aid

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