English

An athlete in a tank top.

Alternative forms

• tanktop
• tank-top

Noun

tank top ‎(plural tank tops)

1. An item of casual clothing: a top with no sleeves.
   • 2004, The New Yorker, 30 August 2004, p.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.

2. The top of a ship's bilge tank, usually the lowest horizontal surface on board.

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See also

• singlet
• T-shirt
• vest
• wife beater, wife-beater, wifebeater