tranq

English

Alternative forms

• trank

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɹæŋk/

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• Rhymes: -æŋk

Noun

tranq (plural tranqs)

1. (slang) Clipping of tranquilizer.
   • 1982, Sue Grafton, A is for Alibi:

     "I gave her a tranq," he said with anguish. "She asked for one and I found this bottle in the medicine cabinet and gave it to her."

   • 1992, Sisters of Mercy, Alice (song):

     She needs you like she needs her tranqs / To tell her that the world is clean.

2. (slang) The veterinary analgesic drug xylazine, used as a street drug

Related terms

• tranx; see more at tranquilizer

Verb

tranq (third-person singular simple present tranqs, present participle tranqing, simple past and past participle tranqed)

1. (slang, transitive) Clipping of tranquilize..
   • 2007, Michele LeBlanc, Belt Buckles and Pajamas, page 65:

     He was about to stand up and start on another rant, which only would have led to Sam tranqing him.

   • 2008, Charlotte Boyett-Compo, In the Arms of the Wind, page 144:

     He fumbled at the dart but the needle was barbed and wouldn't come out. His fingers slid from it as a powerful numbness began to creep over his extremities. “Got him!” the man who had tranqed him shouted to his buddies.

2. To use tranq