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trank

trank

9.9
A drug that makes a person or animal calm and sleepy
  • noun
  • /træŋk/
  • NSFW
translation icon : tranquilizante
  • Josh Trank?

Examples

  • So to the OP, don't give up hope; the supposed director "Josh Trank" has a lot on his plate due to the success of Chronicle.

    Blog text (28)
  • The trank took effect within seconds, and she didn't even seem to realize that she'd been struck.

    Fiction book (1992)
  • Use every trank you've got.

  • You know, have on a trank dealer, you know, have on Elon, have on the baby.

  • Candy, downers, sleeping pills, and tranks are other street names for these drugs.

    Academic text (2006)
  • Nothing but a breeding ground for tranks, lobos and zipheads.

  • The SILENCED TRANK-DART explodes from the barrel.

    Fiction book (1997)
  • The veterinarian prescribed a trank to help calm the anxious dog during the thunderstorm.

  • After taking a trank, he felt relaxed and drowsy, as if all his worries had melted away.

  • She quickly administered a trank to the patient to alleviate their extreme agitation.

Synonyms

tranquilizer
vstrank
  • Specialized
52 6.1

A medicine that makes a person calmer and reduces worry or tension without making them sleepy

is informal and often implies sedation rather than only calming
tranq
vstrank
  • NSFW
14 9.9

A drug that makes a person or animal calm

is the other slang spelling often written with k

Antonyms

stimulant
  • Specialized
27 4.9

A drug that makes the body and mind more active for a short time

Surface Forms

trank singular
tranks plural

Morphology

trank = tranquilizer (semi-transparent) = tranquil + ize + er

This is a clipped form of 'tranquilizer', so the meaning is preserved but the form is shortened in a way that is not fully predictable from standard morphology.

Etymology

The word trank is slang for a tranquilizer and comes from the longer word tranquilizer, whose root tranquil means 'calm', so a trank is a drug that makes someone calm or sleepy.