by rachaelandemma April 08, 2012
1. Referring to a tank top. Usually a men's tank top. Not to be confused with a cutoff shirt. Though both serve the same purpose and are equally as comfortable, a cutoff shirt is not a tanky.
2. An eloquent way of mentioning a tank top without having the harsh sounding words, "tank top", sticking out in your sentence and sounding like a douche.
2. An eloquent way of mentioning a tank top without having the harsh sounding words, "tank top", sticking out in your sentence and sounding like a douche.
Example 1: "Man, that's a pretty sweet tanky. Where'd you get it?"
Example 2: "A tanky is the best kind of shirt you could wear to work out in."
Example 3: "It's so hot out here! I wish I had put on a tanky before I left my house."
Example 2: "A tanky is the best kind of shirt you could wear to work out in."
Example 3: "It's so hot out here! I wish I had put on a tanky before I left my house."
by s.s.galbana February 13, 2014
by Joe schafer December 02, 2003
1) Communists who are anti american imperialism to the extent that they defend cartoonishly bad people/countries as long as they claim to be socialist and challenged the interests of the U.S. or other western countries. They can be found defending Joseph Stalin, Bashar al-Assad, and North Korea.
It began as an insult to members of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB), who supported the Soviet Union's response to the Hungarian Revolution (1956) and the Prague Spring in Czechoslovakia (1968)
2) People who fetishize the aesthetics of 20th century socialist states and treat communism like a social group rather than a political ideology; not everyone who calls themself communist on Twitter is a tankie.
It began as an insult to members of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB), who supported the Soviet Union's response to the Hungarian Revolution (1956) and the Prague Spring in Czechoslovakia (1968)
2) People who fetishize the aesthetics of 20th century socialist states and treat communism like a social group rather than a political ideology; not everyone who calls themself communist on Twitter is a tankie.
Tankie: "I try not to argue with people Lenin would have shot."
T: "Come back after you've read theory, Radlib."
T: "Happy birthday, Stalin! 🎉🎊"
T: "Come back after you've read theory, Radlib."
T: "Happy birthday, Stalin! 🎉🎊"
by Whette Aeggue December 27, 2020
Tankie: A word describing a delusional communist supporter that denies the countless genocides committed by the USSR and other communist/socialist countries.
Person 1: The ccp are great and don’t systematically kill Muslims. Also all Muslims are terrorists and deserve to be systematically murdered.
Person 2: I really hate you 14 year old genocide denying tankie that knows nothing about anything.
Person 2: I really hate you 14 year old genocide denying tankie that knows nothing about anything.
by Sadsocks February 06, 2021
A member of the Royal Tank Regiment of the British Army. The RTR are part of the Royal Armoured Corps- the rest are generally referred to as donkey wallopers or cav ( bit too yankee).
(German accent)- Mein Gott the Tankies are kicking off down Mindener Strasse again!
(2nd German)- Ja, 7 Sigs they never learn !
(2nd German)- Ja, 7 Sigs they never learn !
by I ain't that daft February 15, 2005
an adjective used to describe those who have the capacity to consume food or drink in an unusual, extreme, or sometimes lethal manner.
by Kash09 January 11, 2008

