Meaning of skank | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A lewd and disreputable person, often female, especially an unattractive person with an air of tawdry promiscuity.
   countable, derogatory, slang, uncountable
2. A dance performed to ska, dub, or reggae music.
3. The act of cheating a person.
4. Anything that is particularly foul, unhygienic or unpleasant.
   countable, uncountable
5. A style of rhythmic guitar strumming in ska, reggae, and punk.

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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."”

“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.”

“[…]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”

“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.”

“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.”

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