Definition of tanka. : an unrhymed Japanese verse form of five lines containing five, seven, five, seven, and seven syllables respectively; also : a poem in this form â compare haiku.
(plural schleppers) 1  a servant who carries things. 2  a porter. 3  a pejorative insult for an individual who wanders aimlessly.
Dr. Roger Poppen, a psychologist at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale and the author of ''Joseph Wolpe'' (Sage, 1995), a biography of the doctor, said: ''He was a major force in steering psychotherapy in the direction of empirical science.