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tank up verb- to administer fluids to a dehydrated hospital patient US
- — Sally Williams, “Strong” Words, p. 162, 1994
- to consume large quantities of something, especially alcohol US, 1902
- Well, Doc had been in the hospital kitchen all morning goosing the nurses and tanking up on coal gas and Klim – and just before the operation he sneaked a double shot of nutmeg to nerve himself up. — William Burroughs, Naked Lunch, p. 29, 1957
- She got him tanked up on booze and coke ’til he passed out[.] — John Lescroart, The 13 Juror, p. 107, 1995
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