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tank
noun- a jail cell, especially one in a local police station US, 1912
- SCENE: Packed jail cell generally called “the Tank” in cop talk. — Abbie Hoffman, Revolution for the Hell of It, p. 96, 1968
- Everybody in the tank knew that some one ... we knew what had happened. — Oscar Zeta Acosta, The Revolt of the Cockroach People, p. 113, 1973
- — The (Sydney) Bulletin, 26 April 1975
- It was Christmas Eve babe / In the drunk tank — The Pogues featuring Kirsty MacColl, Fairytale of New York, 1987
- an intentional loss in a competition US
Originally boxing slang. Also called a “tank job”. - To them there is only two kinds of a fight: a tank and a double-cross. — Rocky Graziano (with Rowland Barber), Somebody Up There Likes Me, p. 276, 1955
- Some people are saying you’re going into the tank. — Raging Bull, 1980
- Head-hunter Reuben – near-miss hooks moving back. Lazy Reuben, bored Reuben. A snap guess: tank job. — James Ellroy, White Jazz, p. 143, 1992
- a room in the Pentagon where the Joint Chiefs of Staff meet jointly with the Operations Deputies US
- — Department of the Army, Staff Officer’s Guidebook, p. 67, 1986
- a safe NEW ZEALAND, 1937
- — Jim Ramsay, Cop It Sweet!, p. 88, 1977
- a safe burglary NEW ZEALAND
Prison slang. - — NZWords, p. 2, 2 October 1999
- of money, all you have with you UK: SCOTLAND
- Don’t tell us that’s yer tank? Here, Ah’ll len ye a five-spot. — Michael Munro, The Patter, Another Blast, p. 71, 1988
- an old and heavy surfboard US
- — Michael V. Anderson, The Bad, Rad, Not to Forget Way Cool Beach and Surf Discriptionary, p. 20, 1988
- a heavy-set woman TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO, 1964
- — Lise Winer, Dictionary of the English/Creole of Trinidad & Tobago, 2003
- an ugly girl US
- — Current Slang, p. 6, Fall 1966
- money UK
Probably evolves from TANKER - — John McCririck, John McCririck’s World of Betting, p. 61, 1991
- Could use the tank and all too just now, to be fair. — Kevin Sampson, Outlaws, p. 4, 2001
▶ go in the tank
used of an athletic contest, lost on purpose US- So get in there tonight and take a dump, go in the tank. — Rocky Graziano (with Rowland Barber), Somebody Up There Likes Me, p. 255, 1955
- [T]he lore of betting in the United States has been rife with tales of tigers who went into the tank. — Jimmy Snyder, Jimmy the Greek, p. 77, 1975
- People think that every fight that was ever done was in the tank, that Liston went in the tank for Ali. — Bill Cardoso, The Maltese Sangweech, 1984
- She threw th’ fuckin’ case, went in the tank, intentionally bricked it. — Stephen J. Cannell, The Tin Collectors, p. 156, 2001
▶ in the tank
drunk US- It was a refrain often heard at MacArthur Park choir practice when Spermwhale was almost in the tank, a fifth of bourbon of Scotch in the huge red hand. — Joseph Wambaugh, The Choirboys, p. 127, 1975
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