skank
Part of speech: noun
adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Unknown. Perhaps from skag (“unattractive woman”), but the origins of skag are unknown. Compare scold (“troublesome woman”), skeevy (“disgusting”). Attested from the 1960s.
Inflected forms:
form: skanks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more skank
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most skank
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: skanks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: skanking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: skanked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: skanked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A lewd and disreputable person, often female, especially an unattractive person with an air of tawdry promiscuity.
pos: noun
tags: countable
derogatory
slang
uncountable
examples: Whenever a slang word is heard, the youngsters note it, then write sentences which include the word. […]Hawk: to watch – as in “Man, that skank steady hawks me in school.”
It's also my job to take care of the skanks on the road that you bang.
I'd been used to a lot of jawns following me around from when I first got out there on the rap scene. They were usually chickenhead skanks attracted to the gangsta culture who would lick and suck and fuck any and everything you wanted them to. Four and five times, if you told them to.
Speaking exclusively to Mirror TV, Josie revealed: "I've just split up from somebody because he was a skank and was selling stories to the press, and he was a loser."
gloss: Anything that is particularly foul, unhygienic or unpleasant.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Virgins. I love 'em. No diseases, no loose as a goose pussy, no skank. No nothin'. Just pure pleasure.
Hughes CRAVED dirt. Hughes CRAVED slander skank to share with Mr. Hoover. What Hughes CRAVED, Hughes BOUGHT. ¶ Pete bought an issue’s worth of dirt. His cop contacts supplied him with a one-week load of lackluster skank.
gloss: Lewd, vulgar, skanky.
pos: adj
tags: derogatory
slang
examples: "I wear provocative clothes because they make me feel sexy," Toni says without apology. "If an artist like Madonna is wearing her booty hanging out, she's considered a genius. But if a black person does it, we're considered skank whores or sluts."
gloss: Foul, unhygienic.
pos: adj
tags: derogatory
slang
examples: You can even be a wee bit more skank and don a dirty shirt. Unwashed underwear, however, is a no-go.
gloss: To dance the skank.
pos: verb
examples: Four-thousand miles away, there is a reggae night spot called Club 69, where local youth wear dreadlocks... and dance ska, rocksteady, and skank to the beats of the Wailers.... Club 69 is in Tokyo, the dread youths are Japanese.
gloss: To play guitar with a skank rhythm.
pos: verb
examples: Joe Strummer and Mick Jones did a lot of skanking. Skanking refers to a style of playing using scratch (page 17) rhythms with a strong accent on the off-beats (1 & 2 & 3 & 4 &) rather than the on-beats.
gloss: To be dishonest or unreliable, to defraud or deceive, to steal.
pos: verb
tags: Jamaica
intransitive
transitive
examples: Only Tosh, Marley and Livingston had been signed, and Aston Barrett harboured an unarticulated resentment that later would be couched in the language of betrayal[…] In any event ‘Family Man’ believed that they had an oral agreement, and placed his faith in Marley (from whom they received their wages) that he would not skank them.
Derived words: Skanksgiving
skank up
skanky
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