tank up

Definitions

1. 1

   To fill up (for example, a tank in a vehicle with gas, petrol, etc.).

2. 2

   To intoxicate oneself, especially with alcohol.

   • He was pretty well tanked up with extra dry Mumm and heady old Chambertin, and was drowsy and uproarious by turns.
   • [H]e loves to monkey with the flowing bowl, and gets beastly drunk. He attended a banquet to-day at which I was the honored guest, and he disgraced me by tanking up to the full extent of his capacity.
3. 3

   To install a tank.

   • Every valley was once tanked up for the purpose of irrigation, or the use of the herd,—indelible marks of reproach to succeeding generations, or at least to those by whom they have been governed.

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