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Think Tankie

A person who is professionally involved in spreading propaganda while working for a think tank that is funded by weapons manufacturers who literally build tanks.
I just landed a sweet job at the Australia Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) as a junior Think Tankie!
Think Tankie by High Level Wumao October 12, 2020
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tankee tankeee tankie tanked tanker tankle taneen Taneesha Tanjeet tanke
Flopped on billboard charts, if it even made it to the charts.

A word that stans use ALL THE TIME.
This album by this person tanked.
Tanked by indichotomy December 1, 2020

Tankfest 

a festival of sorts where noble men(and women) gather and drink excessive amounts of alcohol or beer, or both
-hey man you ready for the tankfest at daves?

yeah man we are going to get fucking plastered!

-dude we need or organize a tankfest this weekend..
yeah sounds good where should we host such an activity?

-(on phone) dude get to so and so's house its a goddamn tankfest!

-man last nights tankfest was fucking bonkers. i think i blew chunks like 6 times.
Tankfest by dahmerrr January 19, 2010
delicate female, a very helpful nature,doesn't depend on anybody for anything(self sufficient),cute smile,positive vibes around her.
i wish I was just like tanvee one-day .
tanvee by blooming dale March 5, 2018
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.
tankie by Andy April 20, 2004
A person who is awesome all the while being extremely emotionally inert. Awesomeness redefined.
Tanzeer is one "Siddique enterprises" away from being BATMAN.
tanzeer by Discodancer1234 December 27, 2013
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hey let's get a drink of that?

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Slayyyter just announced another album last night”
“No way, is that cake?”
“Yeah whoops this isn’t real”
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