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Tranq vs Trant - What's the difference?

tranq | trant |

As verbs the difference between tranq and trant

is that tranq is (slang|transitive) to tranquilize while trant is .

As a noun tranq

is (slang) a tranquilizer.

tranq

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (slang) A tranquilizer.
  • * 1982 , Sue Grafton, A is for Alibi
    • "I gave her a tranq ," he said with anguish. "She asked for one and I found this bottle in the medicine cabinet and gave it to her."
  • * 1992 , Sisters of Mercy, Alice (song)
    • She needs you like she needs her tranqs / To tell her that the world is clean.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (slang) To tranquilize.
  • * 2007 , Michele LeBlanc, Belt Buckles and Pajamas (page 65)
    • He was about to stand up and start on another rant, which only would have led to Sam tranqing him.
  • * 2008 , Charlotte Boyett-Compo, In the Arms of the Wind (page 144)
    • He fumbled at the dart but the needle was barbed and wouldn't come out. His fingers slid from it as a powerful numbness began to creep over his extremities. “Got him!” the man who had tranqed him shouted to his buddies.
    English words containing Q not followed by U

    trant

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) tranten, from or cognate with (etyl) .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To walk; go about.
  • To traffic in an itinerant manner; to peddle.
  • To turn; play a trick.
    • Derived terms
    * tranter

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) trant, from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A turn; trick; stratagem.
    • Derived terms
    * (l) ----