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skankers

skankers is the plural of skanker.

Meaning of skanker

Noun

skanker (plural skankers)

  1. Someone who dances the skank.
    • Yellowman, the salacious skanker whose purple raps have kept him in hot water for many years, had surgery recently. His ironic ailment? Cancer of the jaw.1985 October, Richard Steffens, “World Beat”, in SPIN, page 18
  2. (Jamaica) A dishonest or dissolute person.
    • But please make sure you’re not a skanker out to give worries.1996, Weekly Gleaner, 1973, quoted in Richard Allsopp (ed.) Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage, page 510

Questions about skankers

What is skankers the plural of?
Skankers is the plural of skanker.

Words near skankers in the dictionary

  1. skank
  2. skank up
  3. skanked
  4. skanked up
  5. skanker
  6. skankers
  7. skankier
  8. skankiest
  9. skankiness
  10. skanking
  11. skanking up

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