skanknoun詞源 1/ˈskæŋk/

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  derogatoryslangA lewd and disreputable person, often female, especially an unattractive person with an air of tawdry promiscuity.

  • 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.
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  Anything that is particularly foul, unhygienic or unpleasant.

  • 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.

skankadj詞源 1/ˈskæŋk/

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  derogatoryslangLewd, vulgar, skanky.

  • "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."
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  derogatoryslangFoul, unhygienic.

  • You can even be a wee bit more skank and don a dirty shirt. Unwashed underwear, however, is a no-go.

skanknoun詞源 2/ˈskæŋk/

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  A dance performed to ska, dub, or reggae music.

  • […]the ability to double up with contagious laughter; the feeling of pure child-like glee; and the mesmerizing, trance-like skank dancing that looks like African aerobics after centuries of rhythm.
  • All reggae dance represents a dialogue with that basic movement which is the skank — a kind of offbeat walking on the spot
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  entertainmentlifestylemusicA style of rhythmic guitar strumming in ska, reggae, and punk.

  • A typical skank guitar rhythm: {\time3/4\tempo4=180\set Staff.midiInstrument=#"electric guitar (muted)"\repeat unfold2{r8a4}\repeat unfold2{r8g4
  • He took it another step and brought blues into reggae music. I don’t play skank. I don’t play reggae guitar. So I had to call.

skankverb詞源 2/ˈskæŋk/

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  To dance the skank.

  • 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.
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  To play guitar with a skank rhythm.

  • 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.
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  To be dishonest or unreliable, to defraud or deceive, to steal.

  • 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.

skanknoun詞源 3/ˈskæŋk/

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  The act of cheating a person.

  • That's not a good deal; it's a skank.
  • As for the identities of those behind the plan, the mere mention of ‘some millionaire’ reinforced the conviction of those who were ready to part with their money that they were onto a winner. While for others, the mere mention of the names Nestor Riley and Desmond Palmer was enough to confirm that this whole business was a skank which would end in tears.

skankverb詞源 3/ˈskæŋk/

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  To cheat or betray, especially a friend.

  • He short-changed a partner, leaving him feeling skanked.
  • He thought I was trying to skank him and wouldn’t wait any more; he wanted to be there. He wouldn’t wait!
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  To steal, or otherwise acquire underhandedly.

  • of course, maybe somebody that works at the factory where it was pressed could have skanked a few copies...
  • As being now a dedicated 'simmer' since last fall and purchasing no end of add-ons and admittedly skanking some from the likes of Kazaa & Limewire for my FS2002