Skank

/ˈskæŋk/ · noun

Meaning

(derogatory, slang) A lewd and disreputable person, often female, especially an unattractive person with an air of tawdry promiscuity..

Definitions by Sense

1. (derogatory, slang) A lewd and disreputable person, often female, especially an unattractive person with an air of tawdry promiscuity.
2. Anything that is particularly foul, unhygienic or unpleasant.
3. Lewd, vulgar, skanky.
4. Foul, unhygienic.
5. A dance performed to ska, dub, or reggae music.
6. (music, uncountable) A style of rhythmic guitar strumming in ska, reggae, and punk.
7. To dance the skank.
8. To play guitar with a skank rhythm.

Example Sentences

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.

"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.

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Word Forms

• skanks
• more skank
• most skank
• skanking
• skanked

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