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▪ I. skank, n.2 slang (orig. U.S.).
Brit. |skaŋk|, U.S. |skæŋk|
[Origin unknown.]
A person (esp. a woman) regarded as unattractive, sleazy, sexually promiscuous, or immoral.
1964K. Hanson Rebels in Streets i. 8 Hanky and Pinky whom the boys called ‘skanks’, plain, promiscuous—prostitutes without pay. 1972J. Jacobs & W. Casey Grease 12 One of those skanks we've seen around since kindergarten? 1986Playboy (Nexis) May 116/1 Girl M.B.A.s could slip into gabardine suits and floppy bow ties and feel, if not exactly alluring, at least not like total skanks. 1992Spy (N.Y.) Nov. 59 (heading) A startling glimpse into Woody Allen's sex-with-teenagers-obsessed-past—and proof that actual teenage girls think he's a skank. 1994J. Favreau Swingers (film script, third draft) 7 Some skank who isn't half the woman my girlfriend is. 2002Village Voice (N.Y.) (Electronic ed.) 8 Jan. Such is the desperate state of American film culture—dominated by studio goat dung, controlled by marketing skanks.
▪ II. skank, v. orig. Caribbean.
Brit. |skaŋk|, U.S. |skæŋk|, Caribbean |skaŋk|
[Origin uncertain. With sense 2 compare skank n. at skanking n. Derivatives Compare skanker n.
R. Allsopp Dict. Caribbean Eng. Usage (1996) considers sense 3 to be earlier than sense 2; compare skanker n. 1.]
1. trans. To throw (a person) over one's shoulder. rare.
1971Daily Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 14 Jan. 6/5 When they beat me and cut me up he..hold me from behind and I tried to skank him (throw him over my shoulder).
2. intr. To perform a freestyle dance to reggae music (cf. skanking n.); (hence) to perform or play reggae music. Also (colloq.): to sashay, strut.
1973Weekly Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 24 Jan. 13 The dancer, according to his mood, can rock slowly to the bass, or go all out and skank to the drums. 1987Observer (London Suppl.) 20 Sept. 38/1 In London, you can..skank along Railton Road in Brixton until you come to The Legend, a bar built to celebrate the memory of Bob Marley. 1995Wired Aug. 150/2 Under Cover has a talented DJ/singer skanking in a pleasing dance-hall style. 1998C. Channer Waiting in Vain (1999) xix. 344 Behind her, beneath the thatch-roofed pavilions, the guests were skanking to old rock-steady choons and slamming dominoes on plastic tables and telling duppy stories.
3. trans. and occas. intr. To con, swindle, or cheat (a person).
1981Westindian World 31 July 4/1 Apparently Jaybird..a try skank him out of his hard earned bread. 1989Independent 22 Mar. 19/7 Some of the younger girls on the Line try skanking—taking the money up front and then jumping out of the car. 1994Sunday Times 16 Oct. (Style section) 26 You always buy from people you know, otherwise you get skanked and find you've spent, say, {pstlg}50 on half an ounce of hash and they've given you less. |