skanking

Verb (1)

skank (third-person singular simple present skanks, present participle skanking, simple past and past participle skanked)

1. To dance the skank.
   • Four-thousand miles away, there is a reggae night spot called Club 69, where local youth wear dreadlocks... and dance ska, rocksteady, and skank to the beats of the Wailers.... Club 69 is in Tokyo, the dread youths are Japanese.1998, Billy Bergman, Hot Sauces: Latin and Caribbean Pop, 1985, quoted in Craig Lockard, Dance of Life: Popular Music and Politics in Southeast Asia, page 51
2. To play guitar with a skank rhythm.
   • Joe Strummer and Mick Jones did a lot of skanking. Skanking refers to a style of playing using scratch (page 17) rhythms with a strong accent on the off-beats (1 & 2 & 3 & 4 &) rather than the on-beats.1999, Tobias Hurwitz, Punk Guitar Styles, page 24
3. (Jamaica, intransitive, transitive) To be dishonest or unreliable, to defraud or deceive, to steal.
   • Only Tosh, Marley and Livingston had been signed, and Aston Barrett harboured an unarticulated resentment that later would be couched in the language of betrayal[…] In any event ‘Family Man’ believed that they had an oral agreement, and placed his faith in Marley (from whom they received their...2011, Colin Grant, I & I: The Natural Mystics: Marley, Tosh and Wailer, page 210

Verb (2)

skank (third-person singular simple present skanks, present participle skanking, simple past and past participle skanked)

1. (transitive) To cheat or betray, especially a friend.
   • He short-changed a partner, leaving him feeling skanked.
2. (transitive) To steal, or otherwise acquire underhandedly.
   • of course, maybe somebody that works at the factory where it was pressed could have skanked a few copies...1996 December 4, Alex Webb, “The Mystery Of Sasha's New Track...”, in uk.music.rave (Usenet)

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