Definition of "tank"

The other room was a kitchen, with an open fireplace, a safe, a dresser and a tin sink, with a tap from the tank outside.

1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, page 29

The tanks are full and the grass is high.

1896, Henry Lawson, Out Back

Tank beats everything! Oh, man! I could do this all day!

2007 September 25, Bungie, Halo 3, v1.0, Microsoft Game Studios, Xbox 360, level/area: The Ark

By the nature of imprisonment, one is perceived by free society as something subhuman. By the nature of being on a protective custody tank, a "gay tank", everyone there is seen as members of the lowest caste in the system.

1985 April 13, Philip Brasfield, “Echoes Inside of What's Outside”, in Gay Community News, page 4

Before their conversion to 4-6-0 tender locomotives, the L.B. & S.C.R. Baltic tank engines Nos. 330 to 334 measured 50 ft. 5 in. over buffers; the nearest present approach to this figure is the 49 ft. 10½ in. of the remaining ex-Lancashire & Yorkshire Hughes type 4-cylinder 4-6-4 tanks of the L.M.S.R. The Furness and G. & S.W.R. 4-6-4 tanks of the same company, all now scrapped, were, respectively, 49 ft. 1½ in. and 47 ft. 8 in. long.

1941 September, “The Why and the Wherefore: The Longest Tank Locomotives”, in Railway Magazine, pages 431–432

It pleased her more than she could say to know she walked on her own land, over dewed grass, wearing a tank and cotton pajama pants.

2008, Nora Roberts, Tribute, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, page 206

I was wearing a tank and some cotton pants.

2022, Robyn Henderson-Espinoza, Body Becoming: A Path to Our Liberation, Minneapolis, Minn.: Broadleaf Books, 1517 Media

On TikTok, #wifepleaser boasts more than 11.4 million views, while #wifepleasertank has racked up 13.9 million. […] Thanks to TikTok, there has been a mass adoption of the term “wife pleaser” in an attempt to rebrand the tank.

2023 August 9, Brooke Kato, “Gen Z loves the ‘wife beater’ tee — but they’re canceling the name”, in New York Post‎, New York, N.Y.: News Corp, archived from the original on 2023-08-10

He told me about all the odd jobs he'd taken after I was born, when Michigan's economy was tanking. For one, he crisscrossed the Midwest buying old carpets from dentists' offices.

2008 October, Davy Rothbart, “How I caught up with dad”, in Men's Health, volume 23, number 8, page 112

"[...] If the economy has tanked... then we don't want to over-promise and under-deliver."

2022 October 5, “Network News: Private sector's role in a publicly-owned railway”, in RAIL, number 967, page 16

Sometimes oils are tanked for months or years at a time (e.g., linseed oil).

1913, Geoffrey Martin, Industrial and manufacturing chemistry

Beforehand, Swedish [national ice hockey team] coach Bengt-Ake Gustafsson had ruminated about tanking against Slovakia to avoid powerful Canada or the Czechs in the quarters , telling Swedish television, "One is cholera, the other the plague."

2006 March 6, Michael Farber, “Swede Success”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎, Sports Illustrated, archived from the original on 4 November 2012

Unless Bane can tank Helicarrier-busting explosions I'm not sure how he stands a chance.

2015 March 1, DudeFuckMath, “Bane [DC] vs Iron Fist [Marvel]”, in Reddit (r/whowouldwin)‎, retrieved 2017-06-19

A weakened Superman tanked an explosion 50 times larger than the Kepler's Supernova and the electromagnetic shock wave hit him.

2016 June 2, MercinWithAMouth, “Superman Stongest Feat Ever”, in Comic Vine Forums‎, retrieved 2017-06-19

Barda could BFR and I doubt She hulk is tanking a blow from her rod, so she takes.

2016 July 22, Si-Phon Dom, “Big Barda Vs She Hulk”, in Comics Amino‎, retrieved 2017-06-19