Meanings
nountankodrome (plural tankodromes)
plural tankodromes · alternative tankdrome
- obsoletegovernmentA training location for use of tanks; tank park.
Prospective tank-drivers tramped up early every morning to the Tank Park or “Tankodrome”—a couple of large fields in which workshops had been erected, some trenches dug, and a few shell-craters blown
1919, Blackwood's Magazine, volume 205, W. Blackwood, page 588
Origin
1918, tank + -o- + -drome, after aerodrome.
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tankodrome. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tankodrome
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