(ambitransitive, Canada, US) To fill up (for example, a tank in a vehicle with gas, petrol, etc.).
A painter was desirous of drawing the elephant, which was kept in the menagerie at Versailles, [H]e [the elephant] turned his resentment on the master, and tanking up a quantity of water in his trunk, threw it on the paper upon which the…
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(ambitransitive, slang) To intoxicate oneself, especially with alcohol.
One way of insuring that your baby eats enough is to increase his intake during the day, before 11 P.M. By "tanking up," as I call this strategy, you get more food into his tummy, which, in turn, enables him to sleep through longer stret…
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(intransitive) To install a tank.
We Americans have grumbled loudly about rising gasoline prices while tanking up as if almost nothing has happened. Over the Fourth of July holiday, a record 40.7 million Americans took trips of more than 50 miles, up 1.2 percent from a y…
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