Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of hauling water in a tank to ice a logging-road.
- noun The operation or method of treating in tanks, as fish for the extraction of oil, by boiling, settling, etc.
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- verb Present participle of
tank .
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Examples
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The reason the president's poll numbers are tanking is pretty simple – it's the economy stupid!!!!
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What's remarkable about it is that neither of them have a clue about what needs to be done to lead the economy from perceived weakness to perceived strength .. both make policy statements that would result in tanking the economy so all of those pollsters will be in more pain about this time next year no matter who gets elected. carla
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The fact that the stock was sold/dumped so close to it tanking is what the SEC is interested in.
Think Progress » “No Earthly Ideaâ€: Frist Continues To Mislead on Stock Sale 2005
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For ages, six years or so, healers have asked to be made more "hybrid", to become a true mix of DPS, short term tanking, and healing.
Cooking up a Shitstorm Jonas M Luster 2008
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In 2007, Tennis Australia refused to fund his Wimbledon junior campaign after accusing him of not trying hard enough - "tanking" - at the French Open.
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In 2007, Tennis Australia refused to fund his Wimbledon junior campaign after accusing him of not trying hard enough - "tanking" - at the French Open.
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In 2007, Tennis Australia refused to fund his Wimbledon junior campaign after accusing him of not trying hard enough - "tanking" - at the French Open.
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But imagine if the culprit is willing to hurt his team's record in the real market for a short period; in that case, he could try to cause his team to lose a couple of straight games--a practice colorfully known as tanking -- so that the subsequent point spread is relatively easy to beat.
Roger Martin: Fixing the Game: What Capitalism Can Learn from the NFL Roger Martin 2011
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But imagine if the culprit is willing to hurt his team's record in the real market for a short period; in that case, he could try to cause his team to lose a couple of straight games--a practice colorfully known as tanking -- so that the subsequent point spread is relatively easy to beat.
Roger Martin: Fixing the Game: What Capitalism Can Learn from the NFL Roger Martin 2011
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But imagine if the culprit is willing to hurt his team's record in the real market for a short period; in that case, he could try to cause his team to lose a couple of straight games--a practice colorfully known as tanking -- so that the subsequent point spread is relatively easy to beat.
Roger Martin: Fixing the Game: What Capitalism Can Learn from the NFL Roger Martin 2011
bilby commented on the word tanking
In the jargon, tanking in Australian Rules football has come to mean the practice of a team deliberately playing badly toward the end of a season. The lower a team finishes, the higher pick they get in the next player draft. Once it is mathematically impossible for a team to make the finals there is little to play for, hence the inclination to tank. It is of course quite verboten.
"The Tigers will be under the microscope by everyone now after ex-coach Terry Wallace's ambivalent comments recently which have been interpreted as an admission of tanking in 2007."
- Essendon v Richmond, theage.com.au, 24 July 2009.
July 24, 2009
seanahan commented on the word tanking
This is general sports jargon. I've heard it used with regards to several sports.
July 25, 2009
yarb commented on the word tanking
Yeah but it's subtle. I've heard it a lot in the sense of simply "running out of gas", but the deliberately playing badly angle is new to me.
July 25, 2009