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  • noun Plural form of trank.

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Examples

  • If he explodes that easily, maybe his staff has him on tranks or downers to keep him cool.

    Obama: Why Won't McCain Bring Up Ayers To My Face? 2009

  • Seriously though, can you blame Cindy for the tranks?

    Obama Explains His Break From Trinity Church 2009

  • A kind of comforting sense in the sound and better than tranks, I think.

    Emily Dickinson's (OMGasp!) Secret Love Life? Judith Fitzgerald 2008

  • I still have sweaty moments on elevators; can't have medical tests that involve being fed inside a tube-like device without taking tranks heavy enough to knock me out; and I have the occasional nightmare of being buried alive thanks to material I read once for a hsitorical novel--this was on obsessive fear people had in the 1800s.

    Archive 2007-02-01 Ed Gorman 2007

  • I still have sweaty moments on elevators; can't have medical tests that involve being fed inside a tube-like device without taking tranks heavy enough to knock me out; and I have the occasional nightmare of being buried alive thanks to material I read once for a hsitorical novel--this was on obsessive fear people had in the 1800s.

    Scaring the bejabbers out of me Ed Gorman 2007

  • I got so excited about the TVM I actually made myself ill - I don't mean violently ill, I just had to take tranks to cope!

    News from the House of Sticks - 2004

  • There was no danger of them getting anywhere near him; they were as useless as bullets or tranks or gas or any other weapons the authorities were likely to try.

    The Sinister Six Combo Castro, Adam Troy 2001

  • In real life -- or in her Waverly life, anyway-she's jumpy underneath that calm, she has panic attacks on airplanes, she only recently got off tranks and sleeping pills.

    A Darker Place King, Laurie R. 1999

  • Suddenly I felt as if the drinks and the tranks and the camphs had all kicked in at once.

    Dreamfall Vinge, Joan D. 1996

  • Daddy was long gone to wherever dead oilmen went; Mummy was sucking up tranks in the loony bin at Vinita.

    Jinx High Lackey, Mercedes 1994

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