skank

IPA: skˈæŋk

noun

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

verb

  • To dance the skank.
  • To play guitar with a skank rhythm.
  • (transitive or intransitive, Jamaica) To be dishonest or unreliable, to defraud or deceive, to steal.
  • (transitive) To cheat, especially a friend.

adjective

  • (derogatory, slang) Lewd, vulgar, skanky.
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Examples of "skank" in Sentences

  • Has the redesigned Strawberry Shortcake been called a skank?
  • I pity the fool who calls her skank and tramp and trollop and slut.
  • If a guy and a girl hook up with the same number of people, the girl is called a skank and the guy is just a guy.
  • In the same way that Souleymane is an emblem of the system's failure, the student who is called a skank haunts M.
  • Imagine your daughter running around sleeping with someone she stars dating, only to be referred to as a skank/slut/ho.
  • But after anonymous blogger gave one model the title of "skank" - I never thought I'd be saying that on national television.
  • I think everyone needs to just sit back and think about the state of the world when the word skank can cost millions and millions of dollars, grow up everyone.
  • July 7th, 2009 7: 32 pm ET those 7 out of 10 repubs are the STUPID MACHINE that keeps this country at war with the rest of the world. the only other stupid skank is elisabeth hasselbeck, the blonde war monger from The View.
  • We face an onslaught of skank every single day, she said, and this relentless onslaught of skank is teaching our daughters that their worth resides only in their bodies and in their willingness to skank it up with their peers.

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