Tanked

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tanked

Usage: adj.

See Also: hosed

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.

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Sources

Source: tanked, in The Jargon File, version 4.4.7.

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