Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Wildly excited or intoxicated.
- noun A style of hip-hop music originating in the southern United States, characterized by electronic sounds, simple refrains, and a high-energy, heavily rhythmic beat.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To cry like a crane.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb obsolete To cry like a crane.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb obsolete, intransitive To
cry like acrane . - adjective US, slang crazy and drunk; according to the Double-Tongued Word Wrester dictionary, good, phat, fine
- adjective US, slang simultaneously intoxicated by marijuana and alcohol
- adjective US, slang of an absurd amount
- noun A type of
hip hop that originated in the southernUnited States .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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In the parlance of partying, the term crunk is tossed about frequently.
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Rasheeda has been making southern-fried hip hop, more popularly known as crunk music, for years.
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Rasheeda has been making southern-fried hip hop, more popularly known as crunk music, for years.
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Rasheeda has been making southern-fried hip hop, more popularly known as crunk music, for years.
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Rasheeda has been making southern-fried hip hop, more popularly known as crunk music, for years.
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Rasheeda has been making southern-fried hip hop, more popularly known as crunk music, for years.
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This is the kind of crunk that is dividing the party.
Clinton supporters to swarm DC over Florida and Michigan 2008
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Oh, and one other tidbit: this book contains the first-ever reference to "crunk," although its meaning is a bit different than today's crunk.
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Just as the word "crunk" is a combination of crazy and drunk, "hyphy" is a mixture of hyper and fly -- and it means "get stupid," or, as succinctly expressed in the title of another Rock-produced Federation cut, "Go Dumb."
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And, you know, I just wanted to give back to the whole "crunk" thing.
midnightisclose commented on the word crunk
"Girl, whenever we get this frisky, I know it's hard to put on the brakes. Baby, I know. But something's making me behave responsibly tonight. It's your special blend of charisma and spunk. Crunk, I guess you'd call it. But whatever it is, you got it all up in you, girl. You got crunk." - "Something About You," Altar Boyz
January 10, 2007
bilby commented on the word crunk
The sound a crane makes.
November 22, 2007
oroboros commented on the word crunk
Combination of crazy and drunk.
April 26, 2009
madmouth commented on the word crunk
the Crunk is not unseldom drastic
and must be hindered by elastic
April 30, 2009
shinymcshine commented on the word crunk
off the hook and crazy. that party was crunk!
June 27, 2009
tutaref commented on the word crunk
Not sure if it is related.
Crunkle is a verb meaning collapsed physically and emotionally.
After a very heavy night I was totally crunkled the next morning.
When she just walked out on me, I was crunkled. (More like shattered.)
September 13, 2009