thankie 

a cuter way of saying "thank-you" or "thanks"

thankie for the comments

thankie by primaverabebe January 26, 2010

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

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.

tankie by Andy April 20, 2004

thankle 

An exaggeration of 'cankle'. Whereas 'cankle' is a contraction of 'calf-ankle', 'thankle' is 'thigh-ankle'. Indicates that there isn't just no discernable ankle, but no knee either.

Speaker 1. Sally has such cankles.
Speaker 2. No, they're not just cankles, they're THANKLES!

thankle by Aoife303 November 12, 2006

thunkie 

a thunkie is when someone says or does somthing outa pocket

you seen what lil mike did, dude ass a straight up thunkie

thunkie by I’m lil bro September 30, 2020

Think Tankie

a person who is professionally involved in fear mongering, bigotry and the spreading of fake news and propaganda while working for organizations similar to ASPI that are funded by weapon manufactures who literally manufacture tanks.

did you see that guy spreading that pseudo scientific fake news paper on twitter? he literally works for ASPI. LoL such a Think Tankie.

Think Tankie by mitosan September 28, 2020

Thanking the bus driver 

Eating a girl out.

Angie: I'm sinning.
Gil: Thanking the bus driver?

Angie: No Johns thanking the bus driver.

Thanking the bus driver by APmax July 29, 2018