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Tank top
noun
Definitions
Noun
- 1 An item of casual clothing: a top with no sleeves.
"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."
- 2 a tight-fitting sleeveless shirt with wide shoulder straps and low neck and no front opening; often worn over a shirt or blouse wordnet
- 3 The top of a ship's bilge tank, usually the lowest horizontal surface on board.
Etymology
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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