Meanings
verb
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of tank up
adjectivetanked up (comparative more tanked up, superlative most tanked up)
comparative more tanked up · superlative most tanked up
- slangIntoxicated.
The other night, what looked like an entire RAF squadron, all very tanked up, played a football game in the lobby, while we looked on with glazed eyes.The Dutch are more stoical—they get drunk and stay drunk.
2007, James H. Madison, Slinging Doughnuts for the Boys: An American Woman in World War II, Indiana University Press, →ISBN, page 111Synonyms: tanked
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveIntoxicated.
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