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TANKED

Date "TANKED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1906. (references)

 

Specialty Definition: TANKED

DomainDefinition

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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Synonyms: TANKED

Synonyms by domain: concrete tanked slab (building & civil engineering), waterproof concrete tanking (building & civil engineering).

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Commercial Usage: TANKED

DomainTitle

Books

  • You Got Screwed! Why Wall Street Tanked and How You Can Prosper (reference)

  • You Got Screwed!: Why Wall Street Tanked And How You Can Prosper [DOWNLOAD: ADOBE READER] (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Expressions: TANKED

Expression using "TANKED": tanked up. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "TANKED": tanked-up.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: TANKED

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

tanked

5
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Modern Translation: TANKED

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.

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Misspellings: TANKED

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).

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Rhyming with "TANKED"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "TANKED" (pronounced ta"ngkt)
4-a" ng k tbanked, blanked, cranked, flanked, franked, outflanked, ranked, spanked, thanked, yanked.
3-ng k tadjunct, blinked, debunked, defunct, distinct, dunked, extinct, flunked, hoodwinked, indistinct, instinct, interlinked, junked, linked, plunked, precinct, sacrosanct, succinct, winked.

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Anagrams: TANKED

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Expressions
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Derivations
8. Rhymes
9. Anagrams
10. Bibliography


  

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