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tank
verb- in tennis, to throw the match US
- Lendl tanked the third set when he was upset with the umpire. — Allan McKillop, net.sport, 11 December 1985
- — Nike, 2005
- It’s difficult to prove if someone has tanked a match or not tried. — The Guardian, 9 October 2007
- of a business or creative endeavour, to fail, to fall disastrously below expectations, to perform poorly US
- [A]lbum tanked so completely and the singles disappeared so quickly — Eric Alterman, It Ain’t No Sin to be Glad You’re Alive, p. 45, December 2001
- — James J Cramer, You Got Screwed: Why Wall Street Tanked and How You Can Prosper, February 2003
- [I]t completely tanked – on both coasts of the United States. — Henry Rollins, Straight Whisky, p. 193, July 2003
- I am extremely aware that he could have tanked and been completely overwhelmed in first grade — Susan E Israel, Breakthroughs in Literacy, p. 142, September 2009
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