septic tank

English

A septic tank

Noun

septic tank (plural septic tanks)

1. A small-scale watertight treatment system for domestic sewage in which the flow is slowed to allow sedimentation and sludge digestion by bacteria to take place.
2. (Cockney rhyming slang, Australian rhyming slang) Yank (American person).

Synonyms

• (rhyming slang for Yank): Seppo, seppo

Coordinate terms

• (domestic sewage system): cesspit, cesspool

Derived terms

• Seppo, seppo

Translations

watertight treatment system for domestic sewage

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 化糞池 / 化粪池 (zh) (huàfènchí)

• Czech: septik m
• Dutch: septic tank (nl), septische tank (nl), septische put (nl)
• Finnish: sakokaivo (fi) (underground), saostussäiliö (above ground), septitankki (fi) (small scale, as in vehicle)
• French: fosse septique (fr) f
• German: Klärgrube (de) f
• Greek: βόθρος (el) m (vóthros)
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Italian: fossa biologica f
• Japanese: 浄化槽 (じょうかそう, jōkasō)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: septiktank m

  Nynorsk: septiktank m

• Polish: szambo (pl) n
• Portuguese: fossa (pt) f, fossa séptica f
• Russian: се́птик (ru) m (sɛ́ptik), отстойник (ru) m (otstojnik)
• Spanish: fosa séptica f
• Tagalog: poso-negro
• Turkish: foseptik (tr), lağım çukuru
• Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can
• Yiddish: אָפּגאַנגגרוב m (opganggrub)

slang: Yank — see Yank

Further reading

• septic tank on Wikipedia.Wikipedia