tank up

Verb

tank up (third-person singular simple present tanks up, present participle tanking up, simple past and past participle tanked up)

1. (Canada, US, ambitransitive) To fill up (for example, a tank in a vehicle with gas, petrol, etc.).
   • A painter was desirous of drawing the elephant, which was kept in the menagerie at Versailles, […] [H]e [the elephant] turned his resentment on the master, and tanking up a quantity of water in his trunk, threw it on the paper upon which the painter was drawing, and spoiled it.1852, Ludwig Gantter, “Vierter Abschntt. Bilder aus der Natur. [Fourth Section. Pictures from Nature.]”, in Study and Recreation. Englishe Chrestomathie für Real- und Gelehrte-schulen und den...
   • One way of insuring that your baby eats enough is to increase his intake during the day, before 11 P.M. By "tanking up," as I call this strategy, you get more food into his tummy, which, in turn, enables him to sleep through longer stretches at night. Tanking up is also great for growth spurts...2005, Tracy Hogg, Melinda Blau, “Your Baby’s Liquid Diet: Feeding Issues in the First Six Months”, in The Baby Whisperer Solves All Your Problems (By Teaching You How to Ask the Right Questions)...
2. (ambitransitive, slang) To intoxicate oneself, especially with alcohol.
   • He was pretty well tanked up with extra dry Mumm and heady old Chambertin, and was drowsy and uproarious by turns.1883 July 6, Richard Weightman, “Didn’t Pay Attention to the Game”, in Life, volume II, number 29, New York, N.Y.: Published at the Life Office, […], published 19 July 1883, →OCLC, page 28
   • [H]e loves to monkey with the flowing bowl, and gets beastly drunk. He attended a banquet to-day at which I was the honored guest, and he disgraced me by tanking up to the full extent of his capacity.1895 July 15, “A Sure Cure that Didn’t Work”, in G. A. Shraque, editor, Express Gazette: The Official Journal of the Express Service of America, volume XX, number 7, Cincinnati, Oh.: Express Gazette...
3. (intransitive) To install a tank.
   • Every valley was once tanked up for the purpose of irrigation, or the use of the herd,—indelible marks of reproach to succeeding generations, or at least to those by whom they have been governed.1816, [Maurice] Keatinge, “Barcelona, Its Importance.—Cæsar Camp.—The Ebro.—Sierra Molina, and the Course of Its Waters”, in Travels in Europe and Africa […], London: Printed for Henry Colburn, […]...