(thing) by Jargon Sat Apr 29 2000 at 0:53:00

tall card = T = TANSTAAFL

tanked adj.

Same as down, used primarily by Unix hackers. See also hosed. Popularized as a synonym for `drunk' by Steve Dallas in the late lamented "Bloom County" comic strip.

--Jargon File, autonoded by rescdsk.

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(idea) by simonc Sat Jan 27 2001 at 9:45:33
Tanked is a common and reasonably polite Australian euphamism for "intoxicated" (usually drunk).

One can be tanked, or get tanked.

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