tankhood

English

Etymology

tank +‎ -hood

Noun

tankhood (uncountable)

1. The state of being fully tanklike.
   • 1919, The Sketch - Volume 106, page 186:

     The Napier has not yet disclosed its price for its de-luxiest specialty model; but the Daimler, reverting from its filibustering period of tankhood to gentility, has, and is much in accord in proportion with the Rolls-Royce assessment of increase.

   • 2007, Iris Bahr, Dork Whore: My Travels Through Asia as a Twenty-Year-Old Pseudo-Virgin, page 99:

     "Yes, that's fine with me!" I bark, making sure to assert some authority now, before my lack of tankhood makes Seth step all over me.

   • 2018, Amanda Jones, Bringing Up War-Babies, page 59:

     J.H. Everest describes the first tanks as 'ambitious youngsters' and 'precocious youngsters' and speaks of their early battles as infants whose 'digestion was much overtaxed' and who 'needed not only better parental control, but a severe warning not to take unnecessary risks' until they grew up to real 'tankhood'.

   • 2020 September 18, Nate Crowley, “Ring Of Pain is a solid card crawler featuring the grimmest owl in games”, in Rock, Paper, Shotgun:

     I found a Chugging Mask in the demo, which increased my health stat every time I drank a healing potion on full health, and then focused on piling on armour so I could wade through smaller encounters unscathed, and chug my way into tankhood so I could survive harder-hitting foes.