Thomas the Tank engine

The Number 1 and most badass steam engine in the whole fucking world.

I'm dating Thomas The Tank Engine.

by I'm A Random Person October 6, 2016

Siege Tank

A Terran unit from the game "Starcraft" used to "siege up" and launch artillery shells on the opponents base. One of the most potent Terran units.

Also a Bronzong used by m4gnitude on Youtube.

"To defeat the opponent's Photon Cannons, the player used his siege tanks to fire at them from outside the cannons' range.

by SC1312020 February 20, 2009

tankie

A hardline Stalinist. A tankie is a member of a communist group or a "fellow traveller" (sympathiser) who believes fully in the political system of the Soviet Union and defends/defended the actions of the Soviet Union and other accredited states (China, Serbia, etc.) to the hilt, even in cases where other communists criticise their policies or actions. For instance, such a person favours overseas interventions by Soviet-style states, defends these regimes when they engage in human rights violations, and wishes to establish a similar system in other countries such as Britain and America.

The term is used to distinguish the rare individuals with these kinds of beliefs from communists more broadly (including Communist Party members), whose adherence to Soviet doctrine and attachment to existing "socialist" states is somewhat weaker.

It is always more-or-less abusive in the sense that those termed tankies do not use the term themselves, but it doesn't have any particular bite (unlike, say, Trot).

The term derives from the fact that the divisions within the communist movement first arose when the Soviet Union sent tanks into communist Hungary in 1956, to crush an attempt to establish an alternative version of communism which was not embraced by the Russians. Most communists outside the eastern bloc opposed this action and criticised the Soviet Union. The "tankies" were those who said "send the tanks in".

The epithet has stuck because tankies also supported "sending the tanks in" in cases such as Czechoslovakia 1968, Afghanistan 1979, Bosnia and Kosovo/a (in the case of the Serbian state), and so on (whereas the rest of the communist movement has gravitated towards anti-militarism).

I wouldn't be surprised if the tankies even defend Saddam Hussein.

Some of the people round George W Bush used to be left-wing, but they haven't really changed their views much; they were mostly tankies.

by Andy April 20, 2004

Protheon Tank

Used when an internet person isn't aware of something that has been here since a long time ago. The item may be hidden or vary rare

Internet person: "Wow I didn't know this existed!"

Comment section: "It's always been here, this is truly a Protheon Tank moment."

by serenity15 March 10, 2021

Serj Tankian

Vocalist/Musician of System Of A Down, who recently went on Hiatus to persue other musical interests. Serj has since started a record business named "Serjical Strike". "Axis of Justice", a group set up to promote said record company and to allow unknown atrists to make it in the world with their music. Along with these Achievements he has also written and composed a whole album by himself named "Elect the Dead", a pretty kick-ass album if I do say so myself

"Did you hear that song by Serj Tankian, 'Honking Antelope'?"
"Yeah i heard that song just the other day, Pretty London, Ireland!!"

by The Educated One August 5, 2008

So long, and thanks for all the fish

What the dolphins said (or tried to say) to us humans as they left right before the Earth was destroyed in the book The Ultimate Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy.

"So long, and thanks for all the fish." -dolphin

by beattie April 11, 2005

thanks, lee

That guy who tries to top a joke that's already been made.

Lee doesn't get the comedy pyramid. There's set up, rising action, punchline. Lee keeps going after the joke's been made. Thanks, Lee.

by JormanThoad March 21, 2017