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Idioms about tank
- failing, doing poorly, or declining: His grades were in the tank last quarter.
- favoring, colluding, or assisting in a partisan way (often followed by with or for): The talk-show host was in the tank with the Green Party.
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.
in the tank, Slang.
Origin of tank
1610–20; perhaps jointly <Gujarati tānkh reservoir, lake, and Portuguese tanque, contraction of estanque pond, literally, something dammed up, derivative of estancar (<Vulgar Latin *stanticāre) to dam up, weaken; adopted as a cover name for the military vehicle during the early stages of its manufacture in England (December, 1915)
OTHER WORDS FROM tank
tankless, adjectivetanklike, adjectiveWords nearby tank
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How to use tank in a sentence
British Dictionary definitions for tank
tank
/ (tæŋk) /
noun
verb
See also tank up
Derived forms of tank
tankless, adjectivetanklike, adjectiveWord Origin for tank
C17: from Gujarati tānkh artificial lake, but influenced also by Portuguese tanque, from estanque pond, from estancar to dam up, from Vulgar Latin stanticāre (unattested) to block, stanch
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