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  • noun Plural form of skank.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of skank.

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Examples

  • December 4th, 2005 at 6: 23 pm bobbytoo says: trouble with most Robotic Republican skanks is they think they have a handle on some idea of God Christ Christianity and worse.

    Think Progress » Podesta: In Support of Christmas Trees, In Opposition to Budget Cuts Targeting the Vulnerable 2005

  • CARROLL (voice-over): It's the kind of photo spread no model would want, featured on a blog called skanks in New York City, former "Vogue" cover girl Liskula Cohen ended up on the blog telling CNN's Campbell Brown she was determined to find out who was behind putting her there.

    CNN Transcript Aug 25, 2009 2009

  • Apparently it would totally hurt the little feelings of those poor nice boys who abstain from alcohol and fuck semi-conscious girls aka skanks who had it coming to them if we called them rapists.

    RAPISTS AS HYPER-CONFORMISTS » Sociological Images 2008

  • -- Calling two female students "skanks" and then creating an angry mob scene on the blacktop by confronting the students with the shifting rationalization that (A) they misunderstood him, (B) teachers are allowed to say things that students cannot, and (C) he didn't know "skank" meant "prostitute."

    Dan Brown: A Voice of Dissent on The Class 2009

  • Essentially, the movie builds up to a major scene where the teacher calls two of the girls in his class "skanks," or whatever that is in French because this is after all French with subtitles, and this leads a student from Africa to a violent outburst, which leads to a disciplinary hearing where he's expelled, and which leads to some tension with the students.

    Archive 2009-02-01 The Brillig Blogger 2009

  • Essentially, the movie builds up to a major scene where the teacher calls two of the girls in his class "skanks," or whatever that is in French because this is after all French with subtitles, and this leads a student from Africa to a violent outburst, which leads to a disciplinary hearing where he's expelled, and which leads to some tension with the students.

    Freedom Films with English Subtitles, Part II The Brillig Blogger 2009

  • People who have relatives like the Andy character in little Britain might be offended that their relatives are being lambasted and mocked in the name of satire, relatives of vulnerable people in deprived economically bleak areas, "skanks" as they are often termed?

    Ben Stiller to Produce Little Britain Movie | /Film 2009

  • Once you've bagged a few "skanks," to borrow your term, the only cause for calling you a homosexual your roommates will have is your inability to kick ass at Madden.

    mndaily.com - all articles maho@mndaily.com 2010

  • My only qualm is that these so-called "skanks" are, well, that, skanks.

    The Superficial - Because You're Ugly 2010

  • -- Calling two female students "skanks" and then creating an angry mob scene on the blacktop by confronting the students with the shifting rationalization that (A) they misunderstood him,

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com 2009

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