Crunk

/kɹʌŋk/ · adjective

Meaning

(US, slang) Crazy and intoxicated..

Definitions by Sense

1. (US, slang) Crazy and intoxicated.
2. A type of hip hop that originated in the southern United States.
3. (intransitive, obsolete) To cry like a crane.
4. (dialectal) simple past and past participle of crank

Example Sentences

Get crunk, who u wit’?

Let me tell you how I like it / If we’re all in a crowd / I like to be the one they single out / Let me tell you how to please me / Can you get it crunk and make my body jump?

I'm talking about everybody getting crunk, crunk Boys tryin' to touch my junk, junk Gonna smack him if he getting too drunk, drunk

2004, Crunk Classics [audio CD compilation title] http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00029RT1M/

As Houston rap became a national sensation, spinning off into the “crunk” scene, it was hard to believe that just ten years earlier, the only Texas rap acts of any note were Donald “The D.O.C.” Curry, the Dallasite who hooked up with Dr. Dre and the N.W.A. crew, and the Geto Boys, who set out to make West Coast gangstas come off like Young MC.

On Slanguistics, a special on the MTV2 cable network, Andre 3000 offered a succinct analogy for crunk. “What punk was to rock,” he explains, “crunk is to rap.”

Use a “crunk” song for his cell-phone ring.

The crunking crane heard high amongst the clouds.

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Word Forms

• crunker
• crunkest
• krunk
• crunks
• crunking
• crunked

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