tank top
See also: tanktop
English
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editEtymology
editThe upper part of a tank suit worn by female swimmers in modester times when swimming pools were called swimming tanks.
Noun
edit- An item of casual clothing: a top with no sleeves.
- Synonym: tank
- 2004 August 30, The New Yorker, page 38:
- The service makes available, during limited weekend hours, a handful of the company's items – cargo shorts, tank tops, and the like – to the Hamptons house guest who discovers that he can't make it to Monday without purchasing one of those weird madras patchwork blazers.
- The top of a ship's bilge tank, usually the lowest horizontal surface on board.
Derived terms
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editsinglet — see singlet
top of a ship's bilge tank