skank
(noun) a rhythmic dance to reggae music performed by bending forward and extending the hands while bending the knees
filth, crud, skank
(noun) any substance considered disgustingly foul or unpleasant
skank
(verb) dance the skank
Source: WordNet® 3.1
skank (countable and uncountable, plural skanks)
(pejorative, 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.
• (lewdly disreputable woman): See promiscuous woman
skank (comparative more skank, superlative most skank)
(pejorative, slang) Lewd, vulgar, skanky.
skank (plural skanks)
A dance performed to ska, dub, or reggae music.
A style of rhythmic guitar strumming in ska, reggae, and punk.
skank (third-person singular simple present skanks, present participle skanking, simple past and past participle skanked)
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.
skank (plural skanks)
The act of cheating a person.
skank (third-person singular simple present skanks, present participle skanking, simple past and past participle skanked)
(transitive) To cheat, especially a friend.
Source: Wiktionary
25 April 2024
(verb) embody the essential characteristics of or be a typical example of; “The fugue typifies Bach’s style of composition”
The Boston Tea Party helped popularize coffee in America. The hefty tea tax imposed on the colonies in 1773 resulted in America switching from tea to coffee. In the lead up to the Revolutionary War, it became patriotic to sip java instead of tea. The Civil War made the drink more pervasive. Coffee helped energize tired troops, and drinking it became an expression of freedom.
