tank top

See also: tanktop

English

An athlete in a tank top.

Alternative forms

• tanktop, tank-top

Etymology

The upper part of a tank suit worn by female swimmers in modester times when swimming pools were called swimming tanks.

Noun

tank top (plural tank tops)

1. An item of casual clothing: a top with no sleeves.

   Synonym: tank

   • 2004 August 30, The New Yorker, page 38:

     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. The top of a ship's bilge tank, usually the lowest horizontal surface on board.

Derived terms

• peekaboo tank top
• tank-topped

 

Translations

singlet — see singlet

top of a ship's bilge tank

See also

• singlet
• T-shirt
• vest
• wifebeater (or wife-beater, wife beater)