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tanked up

tanked up is the simple past and past participle of tank up.

Meaning of 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...
  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
  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, […]...

Adjective

tanked up (comparative more tanked up, superlative most tanked up)

  1. (slang) Intoxicated.
    • The other night, what looked like an entire RAF squadron, all very tanked up, played a football game in the lobby, while we looked on with glazed eyes.The Dutch are more stoical—they get drunk and stay drunk.2007, James H. Madison, Slinging Doughnuts for the Boys: An American Woman in World War II, Indiana University Press, →ISBN, page 111
    Synonyms:
    tanked

Synonyms of tanked up

Forms of tanked up

comparativemore tanked up
superlativemost tanked up

Questions about tanked up

What does tanked up mean?
Tanked up means intoxicated.
What is tanked up the simple past and past participle of?
Tanked up is the simple past and past participle of tank up.
What part of speech is tanked up?
Tanked up is an adjective.

Words near tanked up in the dictionary

  1. tankdozer
  2. tankdozers
  3. tankdrome
  4. tankdromes
  5. tanked
  6. tanked up
  7. tanker
  8. tanker ace
  9. tanker aircraft
  10. tanker boot
  11. tanker boots

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