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Date "TANKED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1906. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Tanked adj. Same as down, used primarily by Unix hackers. See also hosed. Popularized as a synonym for `drunk' by Steve Dallas in the late lamented "Bloom County" comic strip. Source: Jargon File. |
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| Domain | Title |
Books | |
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Expression using "TANKED": tanked up. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "TANKED": tanked-up. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
tanked | 5 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "TANKED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i dehur (boozy, crocked, drunk, drunken, elevated, exhilarated, far gone, going far, groggy, inebriate, jagged, lit, muzzy, oiled, pissed, potted, queer, screwed up, screwy, sozzled). (various references) | |
Arabic | سكران (boozer, boozy, canned, drunk, drunken, flat, groggy, inebriate, intoxicated, loaded, pickled, pissed, plastered, screwed up, squiffy, tipsy), ثمل (besotted, blind drunk, boozer, boozing, boozy, drunk, drunken, high, inebriate, inebriated, intoxicated, intoxication, lush, maudlin, pickled, plastered, rummy, screwed, screwed up, smashed, sottish, stewed, stoned, take to drink, tight, tipsy, well oiled). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | пиян (cockeyed, drunk, drunken, incapable, inebriate, intoxicated, jagged, juiced, lit, loaded, pickled, pie-eyed, pixilated, plastered, queer, ripe, screwed, screwy, shot, slaughtered, soused, stoned, tight, under the table, wet). (various references) | |
French | soûl, blasé, bituré. (various references) | |
German | tankte (fueled), vollbetrunken, getankt (refueled). (various references) | |
Hungarian | részeg (be in liquor, blind, blind drunk, boiled, bosky, drunk, frog's march, fuddled, have been in the sun, have the sun in one's eyes, laced, lit-up, loaded, lush, lushy, overtaken in drink, overtaken with drink, pickled, pie-eyed, pissed, plastered, tiddly, tipsy, to be blitzed out, to be bust, to be busted, to be hot, to be phazed, to be up the pole, to be way-out, to be zipped, to be zonked out, woozy), derített (defecate). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ankedtay.(various references) | |
Russian | пьяный (blind drunk, blotto, boozy, drunken, foxed, high, in drink, in wine, inebriate, lush, pickled, pissed, pixilated, plastered, queer, screwed, sewed up, soused, sozzled, squiffed, wet, woozy). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | napunjen (loaded, replete). (various references) | |
Thai | เมาเหล้า (mullered), เมามาก (arseholed, cabbaged, faced, kaylied). (various references) | |
Turkish | sarhoş (bacchant, beery, besotted, blind drunk, blotto, bombed, boozed, boozer, boozy, canned, cockeyed, corked, drunk, drunkard, drunken, fried, groggy, high, intoxicated, jagged, lit, lit up, loaded, nappy, oiled, pickled, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, queer, screwed, sloshed, smashed, sodden, sot, sottish, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stewed, stiff, stinking, stinko, stoned, tight, under the influence, under the influence of drink, under the weather, well oiled, winy, woozy, zonked), kafayı çekmiş. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"TANKED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ganked, shanked, taked, tance, tanded, taned, tankan, tankerd, Tenko, Tonke, Tuanku. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "TANKED" (pronounced ta"ngkt) |
| 4 | -a" ng k t | banked, blanked, cranked, flanked, franked, outflanked, ranked, spanked, thanked, yanked. |
| 3 | -ng k t | adjunct, blinked, debunked, defunct, distinct, dunked, extinct, flunked, hoodwinked, indistinct, instinct, interlinked, junked, linked, plunked, precinct, sacrosanct, succinct, winked. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-k-n-t" | |
-1 letter: anted, knead, naked, taken. | |
-2 letters: ante, dank, date, dean, dent, etna, kane, kent, neat, take, tank, teak, tend. | |
-3 letters: and, ane, ant, ate, dak, den, eat, end, eta, kae, kat, kea, ken, nae, net, tad, tae, tan, tea, ted, ten. | |
-4 letters: ad, ae, an, at, de, ed, en, et, ka, na, ne, ta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-k-n-t" | |
+1 letter: dankest, thanked. | |
+2 letters: anticked, nakedest, takedown, untacked. | |
+3 letters: bethanked, blanketed, outranked, takedowns, undertake, unstacked. | |
+4 letters: bankrupted, handbasket, outflanked, outthanked, undertaken, undertaker, undertakes. | |
+5 letters: candlestick, debarkation, handbaskets, keratinized, kindhearted, ringstraked, stickhandle, unbracketed, undertakers, undertaking. | |
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