Tank top

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 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. 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. 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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