tank top

 

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• tanktop, tank-top

The upper part of a tank suit worn by female swimmers in modester times when swimming pools were called swimming tanks.

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tank top (plural tank tops)

2. 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.

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

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