trank n.
1. (also tranq, tranx) any type of tranquillizer; also attrib.
![]() | False Starts 356: An MTA issued them tranqs. | |
![]() | Maclean’s (Toronto) 22 Mar. 58: The Canadian Medical Association has officially expressed ‘alarm’ about over-prescriptions of minor tranks, and their abuse by consumers. | |
![]() | Fort Apache, The Bronx 235: A ‘trank’ would only make him lose his edge. | |
![]() | Wolfman 135: He doubted she’d get much sleep for the next night or two, tranqs or not. | |
![]() | The Joy (2015) [ebook] ‘You spend a couple of nights in The Joy and I promise you you’ll need something a bit stronger than tranks to get you through the day’. | |
![]() | Plainclothes Naked (2002) 224: The Divine Being he imagined ruled the universe, a sympathetic, slightly crazed diva, like Judy Garland in her tranq-plagued later years. | |
![]() | ‘Drug Sl. Vault’ on Erowid.org 🌐 Tranx Tranquilizer. | |
![]() | Hell on Hoe Street 6: Noreen you want a trank? You got brain fever? | |
![]() | Big Boat to Bye-Bye 185: ‘It wasn’t me. I took a Mickey finn’ [...] ‘That trank story?’ He sneered. | |
![]() | Kimberly’s Capital Punishment (2023) 481: The tranx is like a tickly sickly snake. |
2. phencyclidine [used non-recreationally as an animal tranquillizer].
![]() | ONDCP Street Terms 21: Trank — PCP. |
In derivatives
drugged by tranquillizers, thus v. trank/tranq.
![]() | Inquiry n.p.: Everybody looked all tranked out. Everything so goddamned cheerful and phony. | |
![]() | Dirty Work 107: They had him tranked out probably. We don’t want you to hurt yourself or nobody else. | |
![]() | London Fields 302: I wait until Kath is asleep or out pacing the walkways with the alcoholic housewives, the tranqued mums, the bingoid single parents. | |
![]() | Long Line of Dead Men 237: Son of a bitch eats Valium all day long, he’s tranked out like the night of the living dead. | |
![]() | Samaritan 83: Her [...] eyes, despite their tranked-out glassiness, still somehow managing to project a fierce and angry sexuality. | |
![]() | Seven Demons 226: I say just elephant tranq the whole fucking canton. |