tranq

plural tranqs · alternative trank

1. abbreviationclippingcountableslangClipping of tranquilizer.

   She needs you like she needs her tranqs / To tell her that the world is clean.

   1992, “Alice”, performed by The Sisters of Mercy

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   "I gave her a tranq," he said with anguish. "She asked for one and I found this bottle in the medicine cabinet and gave it to her."

   1982, Sue Grafton, A is for Alibi

   The cops were forced to call in reinforcements to shoot the zebra with tranquilizer darts in an effort to calm him down. Unfortunately, the tranqs did the opposite, setting the zebra off in a panic, as it ran into a nearby lake.

   2016 March 29, N/A, “Escaped zebra drowns at golf course: Zebra gets tranqed, dies in Japan - TomoNews”, in TomoNews US (Usenet)

2. slanguncountableThe veterinary analgesic drug xylazine, used as a street drug.

   In viral videos uploaded to social channels such as TikTok, tranq users are filmed when they are in a physical state in which they are unlikely to be able to consent.

   2023 December 17, Olivia Empson, “‘Tranq tourism’: alarm in Philadelphia as TikTokers travel to film drug users”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

present singular third person tranqs · participle present tranqing · participle past tranqed · past tranqed · alternative trank

1. abbreviationclippingslangtransitiveClipping of tranquilize.

   He was about to stand up and start on another rant, which only would have led to Sam tranqing him.

   2007, Michele LeBlanc, Belt Buckles and Pajamas, page 65

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   He fumbled at the dart but the needle was barbed and wouldn't come out. His fingers slid from it as a powerful numbness began to creep over his extremities. “Got him!” the man who had tranqed him shouted to his buddies.

   2008, Charlotte Boyett-Compo, In the Arms of the Wind, page 144

2. intransitiveslangTo use the drug called tranq.