tanked

1. 1
   adjectiveslang

   Drunk, typically very heavily, after consuming a large amount of alcohol.

   He showed up to the reunion already tanked, slurring every word.

   The two of them got thoroughly tanked celebrating the championship win.

   Similardrunk, wasted, hammered, plastered, smashed

   Oppositesober

   Note

   Slang that belongs to the bar and the casual retelling afterward, so keep it out of formal writing. It grades like an ordinary adjective: very tanked, more tanked. It also sits comfortably before a noun, as in Mark Irwin's 1996 description of a heavily drunk woman met at a bar. With get it names the drinking that leads there, as in Phillip Anthony Sainz-Hall's From The Bullet To The Bible (2018): "After getting very tanked I realized the place had become empty."

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   verb

   Simple past and past participle of tank.

   The movie tanked at the box office despite all the early hype.

   His grades tanked during his final semester of school.

   Note

   One regular -ed form covers both the past (the market tanked) and the participle after have (sales have tanked). Most uses are intransitive and describe a steep fall, as with an economy or a film's takings. The sports sense takes an object: a team tanked the game. Gamers say a player tanked the boss. Keep it apart from the slang "drunk" adjective, which describes a person rather than an outcome.

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