Definition of a drunk tank

drunk tank    

noun

• a holding cell for drunk people, usually in a county jail.

  See that po over there? Go through that side street to get around him. It's sketchy, but better than being thrown in the drunk tank.

  • See more words with the same meaning: jail (related to).

  Last edited on Mar 19 2014. Submitted by Lurking Grue from University of South Carolina: General Information, 901 Sumter St # 207, Columbia, SC 29201, USA on Nov 27 2010.

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Other terms relating to 'jail (related to)':
clink, the	Definitions include: prison.
go downtown	Definitions include: to perform oral sex on a partner.
Club Fed	Definitions include: federal prison.
time	Definitions include: time in prison.
5-0'd	Definitions include: in jail
bing	Definitions include: jail or prison.
hoosegow	Definitions include: jail.
stretch	Definitions include: a period of time.
lock up	Definitions include: To fight someone.
jug, the	Definitions include: jail.
pad	Definitions include: home.
bust out	Definitions include: to yell at someone; "blow up".
pen	Definitions include: n. tampon.
klink	Definitions include: jail or prison.
lifer	Definitions include: a person with a life sentence in prison.
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Other terms relating to 'drunk':
DADS	Definitions include: acronym for "day after drunk shits".
dead drunk	Definitions include: extremely drunk - passed out or near to passing out.
drunk	Definitions include: inebriated.
drunk-dial	Definitions include: to make a phone call while drunk.
go drunk, you're home	Definitions include: "Go home, you're drunk," as a drunk person might say it.
piss *ss drunk	Definitions include: extremely inebriated.
snot slingin' drunk	Definitions include: being very drunk
toilet hanging drunk	Definitions include: so drunk that you spend a long time on the bathroom floor hanging onto a toilet bowl while you vomit
Other terms relating to 'tank':
LOLITA	Definitions include: a sexually attractive or sexually provocative female under the age of sexual consent.
piss-tank	Definitions include: a person who habitually drinks large amounts of alcohol.
septic tank	Definitions include: Cockney rhyming slang meaning American i.e. septic tank - yank.
tank	Definitions include: to overcome, to conquer.
tank *ss	Definitions include: large ass.
tanked	Definitions include: extremely drunk.
tanked up	Definitions include: to be totally drunk, full of alcohol, intoxicated.

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