Skank Definition
skăngk
skanks
noun
One who is filthy or foul.
American Heritage
A skanky person; specif., a woman or girl considered sleazy, sluttish, etc.
Webster's New World
A rhythmic dance performed to reggae or ska music, characterized by bending forward, raising the knees, and extending the hands.
American Heritage
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).
Wiktionary
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"
Wiktionary
verb
To dance the skank.
Come on, skank along, it's the skanking song.
Wiktionary
To cheat, especially a friend.
He shortchanged a partner, leaving him feeling skanked.
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Origin of Skank
Jamaican English to loaf, be shifty, be cunning, dance the skank perhaps akin to skank
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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Blend of scold and brank. Middle English, meaning frolicsome and often lascivious conduct.
From Wiktionary
Slang word used in Northern England (commonly used through the 1980s).
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Origin unknown
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
Jamaican origin
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