skank
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[edit] English
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[edit] Etymology 1
[edit] Noun
skank (plural skanks)
- Any substance considered particularly foul, unhygienic or unpleasant
[edit] Etymology 2
Blend of scold and brank. Middle English- meaning frolicsome and often lascivious conduct.
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[edit] Noun
skank (plural skanks)
- (pejorative, slang) A lewdly unattractive and disreputable person, often female, especially one with an air of tawdry promiscuity.
- It's also my job to take care of the skanks on the road that you bang. - Tom Cruise in the movie "Jerry Maguire."
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[edit] Etymology 3
Jamaican origin
[edit] Noun
skank (plural skanks)
[edit] Verb
skank (third-person singular simple present skanks, present participle skanking, simple past and past participle skanked)
- To dance the skank
- Come on, skank along, it's the skanking song.
[edit] Etymology 4
Slang word used in Northern England U.K (commonly used through the 1980s).
[edit] Noun
skank (plural skanks)
- The act of cheating a person through disloyal and selfish means with no shame to use deception in the process (most commonly to a known associate or friend).
- Referring to having insight or recognising a process to potentially being greatly non favourable to the (victim/) first person's benefit or interest.
- "that's not a good deal, it's a skank"
[edit] Verb
skank (third-person singular simple present skanks, present participle skanking, simple past and past participle skanked)
- (transitive) To cheat, especially a friend.
- He shortchanged a partner, leaving him feeling skanked.
