English Dictionary

tank up

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈtæŋk ʌp/

動詞

カナダ英語 アメリカ英語 自動詞 他動詞 俗語

(transitive, intransitive, Canada, US) To fill up (for example, a tank in a vehicle with gas, petrol, etc.). / (transitive, intransitive, slang) To intoxicate oneself, especially with alcohol.

日本語の意味

車両などの燃料タンクにガソリンや軽油などを補充すること。 / （俗語で）自ら酒に酔う、または酒で自分自身を酔わせること。

We should tank up before we drive through the desert tomorrow.

明日砂漠を車で走る前に、車のガソリンを満タンにしておいたほうがいいです。

意味（1）

(transitive, intransitive, 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 painter was drawing, and spoiled it.

意味（2）

(transitive, intransitive, slang) 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.

意味（3）

(intransitive) 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.

tanks up （ present singular third-person ）

tanking up （ participle present ）

tanked up （ participle past ）

tanked up （ past ）