tank

Definition

  • noun: a container for holding a liquid or gas
  • noun: one built as a water supply
  • verb: to be very unsuccessful
  • verb: to place, store, or treat in a tank
  • synonyms: pond, archives, armory

Examples

  • The team 'went into the tank' [=got much worse; became very unsuccessful] last season.

  • We went through a 'tank' [='tankful'] of gas on the trip.

  • Some people say she deliberately 'tanked' the match.

Movie quotes

  • (..) ...only to find the Kragle was all the way up on the infinityeth floor... ...and strange, dangerous relics... And there be a mysterious room called the Think Tank. I had to replace every part of my once-strapping... ...with this useless hunk of garbage ye see before ye. (..)
    2014 The Lego Movie
  • (..) I'm runnin' on fumes here. The bad news is, I'm gonna be about ten minutes short of breakin' Anatoly's record, and I... What? - I'm redlining. My O tank pressure is low. Your tank is out of oxygen but you still have it in your suit. - Got it. So you have to sip, not gulp. Wine, not beer. Sip, Ryan. (..)
    2013 Gravity
  • (..) they gonna kill in retaliation? With their -gauge pump-actions, their Colt automatics, their Remingtons, their helicopters, their tanks! We won't win that way, and I ain't talking about the Bible. I ain't talking what's right by God. I am talking facts. Cold, hard facts! Now, you take two of them, (..)
    2014 Selma