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crunk

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Scrabble points
11
Words With Friends
14
Letters
5
Pronunciation
/kɹʌŋk/

Definition of crunk

5 senses · 4 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (US, slang)Crazy and intoxicated.
    “Get crunk, who u wit’?”
    “Let me tell you how I like it / If we’re all in a crowd / I like to be the one they single out / Let me tell you how to please me / Can you get it crunk and make my body jump?”
    “I'm talking about everybody getting crunk, crunk Boys tryin' to touch my junk, junk Gonna smack him if he getting too drunk, drunk”
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adj

  1. (US, slang)Crazy and intoxicated.
    “Get crunk, who u wit’?”
    “Let me tell you how I like it / If we’re all in a crowd / I like to be the one they single out / Let me tell you how to please me / Can you get it crunk and make my body jump?”
    “I'm talking about everybody getting crunk, crunk Boys tryin' to touch my junk, junk Gonna smack him if he getting too drunk, drunk”

noun

  1. (uncountable)A type of hip hop that originated in the southern United States.
    “2004, Crunk Classics [audio CD compilation title] http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00029RT1M/”
    “As Houston rap became a national sensation, spinning off into the “crunk” scene, it was hard to believe that just ten years earlier, the only Texas rap acts of any note were Donald “The D.O.C.” Curry, the Dallasite who hooked up with Dr. Dre and the N.W.A. crew, and the Geto Boys, who set out to make West Coast gangstas come off like Young MC.”
    “On Slanguistics, a special on the MTV2 cable network, Andre 3000 offered a succinct analogy for crunk. “What punk was to rock,” he explains, “crunk is to rap.””
    “Use a “crunk” song for his cell-phone ring.”

verb

  1. (intransitive, obsolete)To cry like a crane.
    “The crunking crane heard high amongst the clouds.”
  2. (dialectal, form-of, participle, past)simple past and past participle of crank

name

  1. A surname.

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Etymology

Attested in the Southern US since the late 1980s, originally in the sense of “rowdy, high energy out-of-control behavior by a crowd at Southern night clubs”. Popularized by its use…

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Attested in the Southern US since the late 1980s, originally in the sense of “rowdy, high energy out-of-control behavior by a crowd at Southern night clubs”. Popularized by its use in the fusion genre of crunk music in the 1990s and especially early 2000s. In this context, first used in music lyrics and notably popularized by Lil Jon & the East Side Boyz, on their 1997 debut album Get Crunk, Who U Wit: Da Album. Various possible origins have been proposed: * Blend of crazy + drunk “crazy drunk”. * Blend of chronic (“marijuana”) + drunk “high on marijuana and drunk (on alcohol) at the same time”. * From a dialectal past tense of crank. See Crunk: etymology at Wikipedia for further information. There is no evidence of any connection with Yiddish or German krank (“sick, ill”), nor that it entered the Southern Black vernacular through the presence of European Jewish immigrant shopkeepers in black neighborhoods in cities such as Atlanta. The phonetic similarity of the words is considered a coincidence.

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