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In some senses, skank is marked as derogatory, slang. Watch for register when choosing this word.
skank
/ˈskæŋk/
noun 5verb 5adj 1
Collocations
4ADJ.
mesmerizing, steady, wee
VERB + SKANK
bit, deal, total
SKANK + NOUN
don, hawks
PREP.
in
Definitions
noun
1
A 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.
2
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.
adj
1
Lewd, 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."
You can even be a wee bit more skank and don a dirty shirt. Unwashed underwear, however, is a no-go.
noun
1
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
2
A 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.
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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.”
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It's also my job to take care of the skanks on the road that you bang.
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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
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"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 do
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You can even be a wee bit more skank and don a dirty shirt. Unwashed underwear, however, is a no-go.
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[…]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.
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