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Meaning:
Noun:
- A container for liquids or gases, typically with a volume of several cubic metres.
- (American SouthWest English, esp Texas), a large metal container, usually placed near a wind-driven water pump, in an animal pen or field. By extension a small pond for the same purpose.
- An armoured fighting vehicle, armed with a gun in a turret, and moving on caterpillar tracks.
- (Australian and Indian English), a reservoir or dam.
- video games|online games In online and offline role-playing games, a character designed primarily around damage absorption and holding the attention of the enemy with offensive power as a close secondary consideration.
- In USA scuba divers' usage, a compressed air or gas cylinder.
- slang A very muscular and physically imposing person. Somebody who is built like a tank.
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Verb:
- To fail or fall (often used in describing the economy or the stock market); to degenerate or decline rapidly; to plummet.
- To put fuel into a tank
- (Video game jargon) To attract the attacks of an enemy target in cooperative team-based combat, so that one's teammates can defeat the enemy in question more efficiently.
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