tankero

== Finnish == === Etymology === From English dangerous, reinterpreted as a plural; from a joke in which a Finn (in many versions, Finnish politician Ahti Karjalainen) visits a zoo or goes on safari, sees a sign "All animals are dangerous" and comes to believe that every animal is called tankero. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈtɑŋkero/, [ˈt̪ɑ̝ŋk̟e̞ro̞] Rhymes: -ɑŋkero Syllabification(key): tan‧ke‧ro Hyphenation(key): tan‧ke‧ro === Noun === tankero (informal, dated) A humorous animal which appears in jokes ridiculing poor English or foreign language proficiency. [1970s] (informal) synonym of tankeroenglanti ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ====