tanky

tanky

1. adjective, slang Drunk I hadn't eaten all day, so I started to get tanky after my second drink.
2. noun, obsolete slang A Royal Navy sailor charged with maintaining the ship's freshwater tanks or with another responsibility reserved for junior sailors. Primarily heard in UK. He is recorded in the log as a freshwater tanky, meaning that he was responsible for maintaining the ship's water supplies.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

tanky

mod. alcohol intoxicated. He found a way to slow down and keep from getting tanky at parties.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • belt
  • belted
  • belting
  • jack
  • jacked
  • jacking
  • juice
  • juiced
  • garbage
  • edge
References in periodicals archive
Delta's Shock and Awe MH QAA, Call name: Tank, Tankers, Tanky or simply T July 14, 2002--Nov.
This was the making of Challenor, a tough young man with wide shoulders, known as "Tanky".
Full details of this get-together from Tanky Turner on 01536 485313.
The Marsden to Edale race, which is also known as Tanky's Trog, takes competitors over Black Hill, Bleaklow and Kinder Scout en route to Edale.
Good news arrived in early December for the brigade - come out of the line and move down to Belgium for a three/four week refit for the tanky boys to get new tanks and our battalion to get new carriers and half-tracks.
it began showing some tanky aromas, which then blew off to reveal some complex clove-like spice notes alongside the fruit.
They've just put the windows in and this dark, dank water tanky space has been transformed into a beautiful room.
"We never did get round to giving it a name," says Mo, "but someone suggested Tanky."
A camera man was allegedly manhandled by plain-clothes policemen of Satellite Town police station at Tanky Morr on Saturday.
051-5555489, Water Works number-1, Saidpur Road (Safaid Tanky) phone number 051-9290491, Gulzar-e-Quaid, 051-5955962, Khayaban-e-Sir Syed, 051-4834733 will also remain operational and supervised by Incharge Water Bowser Sector, Mohammad Ashfaq mobile number 0333-4050650.
initiating, if you're playing a tanky support like Leona.
Later, sisters of Imran Khan visited a number of areas in NA 122 like Union Council 75 Bohar Wala Chowk, Tanky Number 56 area, Basti Saidan Shah where PTI office bearers Taqi Khan, Munawari Apa held public meetings and they took part in door to door electoral campaign.
Tyto programy mely zajistit to, ze pozemni sily budou nakonec vybaveny 250 tezkymi bojovymi tanky typu Leclerc, priblizne 650 obrnenymi bojovymi vozidly pechoty typu VBCI, 80 bojovymi a 130 prepravnimi vrtulniky a 25 000 individualnich bojovych kompletu typu Felin.
"I'm with the AA!" Shepherds' Supper at 'The Tanky' had been a superb but lengthy night; my best-laid plans, frayed and finally filleted by a succession of wonderful toasts, music and humour, saw your columnist, the last speaker of the night, rise to his feet minutes before midnight.