tank top

See also: tanktop

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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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