"drunk tank" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: En-au-drunk tank.ogg [Australia] Forms: drunk tanks [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} drunk tank (plural drunk tanks)
  1. (slang) A cell where people who have been arrested for public drunkenness are detained until they are sober. Tags: slang Categories (topical): Alcoholism, Drinking Translations (cell where drunken people are detained until they are sober): тверези́лня (tverezýlnja) [feminine] (Carpathian Rusyn), dronkemanscel [feminine] (Dutch), juoppoputka (Finnish), putka (Finnish), cellule de dégrisement [feminine] (French), Ausnüchterungszelle [feminine] (German), izba wytrzeźwień (Polish), wytrzeźwiałka [feminine] (Polish), вытрезви́тель (vytrezvítelʹ) [masculine] (Russian), fyllecell [common-gender] (Swedish), tillnyktringscell [common-gender] (Swedish), витвере́зник (vytveréznyk) [masculine] (Ukrainian)

Inflected forms

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