| 单词 | tank up |
| 释义 | tank upSEE SYNONYMS FOR tank up ON THESAURUS.COM verb (adverb) mainly Britishto fill the tank of (a vehicle) with petrol slang to imbibe or cause to imbibe a large quantity of alcoholic drink Words nearby tank uptank top, tank town, tank trailer, tank trap, tank truck, tank up, tank wagon, tanna, tannage, tannate, Tannenbaum Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Idioms and Phrases with tank uptank up Fill a gas tank with fuel, as in As soon as we tank up the car we can leave. [First half of 1900s] Drink to the point of intoxication. F. Scott Fitzgerald used this expression in The Great Gatsby (1926): “I think he'd tanked up a good deal at luncheon.” This expression often is put in the passive, meaning “be or become intoxicated,” as in My roommate really got tanked up last night. [Slang; c. 1900] The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. |
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