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drunk tank

n. a cell where people who have been arrested for public drunkenness are detained until they are sober.

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Drunk Tank

Drunk Tank was a noise rock group formed in Chicago, Illinois and active between 1989 and 1992. Although the band was short lived, their few releases garnered them favorable reviews. The band's earliest incarnation featured drummer and percussionist Lou Ciccotelli, who would become recognized for his involvement in God, Laika and Ice.

Drunk Tank (album)

Drunk Tank is the eponymously titled debut studio album of Drunk Tank, released in 1991 by Radial Records. The CD release of the album is appended with tracks taken from the band's first two 7" singles.

Usage examples of "drunk tank".

And then, while crawling around on his knees in some ice-covered alley and racked with fits of projectile vomiting, he is grabbed by vicious cops and whipped on the shins with a night stick, then locked in the drunk tank of the local jail and buggered all night by winos.

With nothing dramatic, no three-day bender, no delirium tremens in a drunk tank, no cloth straps and Thorazine or a concerned psychiatrist to look anxiously into your face.

Some drunk in a cell, waiting to go down to the city drunk tank for sunrise court, kept giving the Australian bush call all the time we were talking.

I sort of screwed up with your little friend Zhenya the Silent, and I ran into Lyuba when I was coming out of the drunk tank, and I told her everything.

Kolya had gone from academe to labour camp, and Obidin zigzagged from drunk tank to church.

It dropped us off at the Lincoln Heights Division--home of the famous Lincoln Heights drunk tank.

And this afternoon he walks in looking like hell warmed over and smelling like the drunk tank and runs right into old Jerry.

Beyond the drunk tank was another green metal door, the words Bloc Celltilaire in bold white to its right, beside that another counter A guard was placing a bundle in one of a grid of cubicles, this one marked XYZ.

You want to spend the night in jail, in the drunk tank with the worst of the homophobic psychos from the entire L.