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In some senses, janky is marked as informal, slang, colloquial. Watch for register when choosing this word.
janky
/ˈd͡ʒæŋ.ki/
adj 4
Collocations
4ADJ.
together
VERB + JANKY
gonna, preventing, talk, thread
JANKY + NOUN
anrs, candy, role, software, ui, you're
PREP.
about
Definitions
adj
1
Of poor quality.
It's barely holding together, it's so janky.
2
Strange, odd.
“And look, they don't even call them cigarettes. They call them fun tubes.” “Well, I guess,” said Hillary. “Talk about a janky role model. Candy cigarettes.”
We're gonna do some janky shit. When you're doin' janky shit, you wear a mask.
3
Untrustworthy, disreputable.
Janky promoters trying to fuck up my lil' image / They fucked us over, only way you get the picture
adj
1
Unresponsive (of a software application’s user interface), sluggish.
While the asynchronous HTTP call is running on a background thread (preventing a janky UI, or ANRs), the user can navigate away from the activity after the request has been sent but before the response has been received by the device.
If you love B-movies, crazy sci-fi and intense, janky-as-all-hell videogames, you’ve come to the right place.
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It's barely holding together, it's so janky.
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“And look, they don't even call them cigarettes. They call them fun tubes.” “Well, I guess,” said Hillary. “Talk about a janky role model. Candy cigarettes.”
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We're gonna do some janky shit. When you're doin' janky shit, you wear a mask.
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While the asynchronous HTTP call is running on a background thread (preventing a janky UI, or ANRs), the user can navigate away from the activity after the request has been sent but before the respons
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If you love B-movies, crazy sci-fi and intense, janky-as-all-hell videogames, you’ve come to the right place.
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That janky software keeps crashing all the time.
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