Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To cry like a crane.
Wiktionary
- v. obsolete, intransitive To cry like a crane.
- adj. US, slang crazy and drunk; according to the Double-Tongued Word Wrester dictionary, good, phat, fine
- adj. US, slang simultaneously intoxicated by marijuana and alcohol
- adj. US, slang of an absurd amount
- n. A type of hip hop that originated in the southern United States.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. obsolete To cry like a crane.
Etymologies
- Blend of crazy and drunk “crazy drunk”. Alternatively, Blend of chronic ("marijuana") and drunk “high on marijuana and drunk (on alcohol) at the same time”. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“In the parlance of partying, the term crunk is tossed about frequently.”
“Rasheeda has been making southern-fried hip hop, more popularly known as crunk music, for years.”
“This is the kind of crunk that is dividing the party.”
“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.”
The Wall Street Journal: Ten Stories Behind Dr. Seuss Stories
“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.”
“And, you know, I just wanted to give back to the whole "crunk" thing.”
“This one we had much debate about, because, "crunk" is, I guess the formal definition is a style of Southern rap music.”
“But then again, who thought "crunk" would reach the masses?”
“By plugging terms like 'crunk', 'Memphis', and the names of some of the movie's stars into Google's Site Tool a tool that automatically returns a list of sites related specific topics or categories, Paramount was able to identify and advertise on 170 different niche sites.”
“You know, before we go any further, because I know the word ` s going to come up, just tell people what "crunk" is.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘crunk’.
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recent new scrabble words
these came into effect from 2011
abitur, abiturs, abscisic, achar, achars, acquis, addings, aerobot, aerobots, aguna, agunah, agunot and 1465 more...
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portmanteaus
slithy, chortle, mimsy, galumph, maffluent, smog, motel, momentaneous, splisters, swifting, editated, splatter and 73 more...
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Gorey's Creatures
nonce animals such as from "Utter Zoo Alphabet"
ampoo, boggerslosh, crunk, dawbis, epitwee, fidknop, gawdge, humglum, ippagoggy, jelbislup, kwongdzu, limpflig and 17 more...
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unk knowns
bunk, chipmunk, junkyard, funk, junket, crunk, chunk, kerplunk, hunk, preshrunk, spunk, countersunk and 53 more...
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Twitter favorites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favorite word" and adds it to this list.
See also:
unfathomably, glice, cuh, fab, ciggaty, doll, thuggin, oxymoronic, pineapple, succubutt, griming, cheeky and 3063 more... -
Junk
walrus, fascination, broadway, fickle, downturn, bridge, gargle, rotunda, mesh, fab, shortlife, strumming and 304 more...
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global list
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vmarinelli's Words
canard, gumption, inexorable, insouciance, inviolable, mordant, euphonious, sawbuck, carpe diem, pay dirt, adipocere, profligate and 496 more...
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spicolli's Words
terrapin, ravenous, fuck, sepulchral, garlic, suss, queer, curmudgeon, foodie, intricate, omphalos, subversion and 534 more...
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Alaric's Words
chelation, bradykinetic, twelfth, dank, kulak, oneiric, cathexis, yonder, quern, lissome, naiad, krakatoan and 124 more...
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...:::bella:::...
originally started as an attempt to collect words I found visually and auditorially beautiful, as well as psychically evocative, this has become nothing more than a grab bag of word curiosities, a ...
bergamot, jambalaya, bee's knees, heliotrope, hosanna, gamboge, aureole, filial, madrigal, multilingual, sacrosanct, sojourn and 1072 more...
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thegirlnextfloor's list
autumnal, avalanche, silhouette, antique, abysmal, scorch, sonic, surge, symmetry, whisper, penchant, dissipate and 349 more...
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the hotlist
short, sweet, epic, catchy, sassy, sexy & sizzling.
( personal list, randomness )
more:
http://www.wordnik.com/lists/...zing, epic, win, fail, hot, warp, times, clip, onyx, wonky, pwn, leet and 1500 more...
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Favorite Words
crunk, ostentatious, shellac, smoot, thrice, somnambulant, nefarious, nostalgic, shenanigans, hooligans, oracle, torr and 142 more...
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Letters, October-December
Interesting words from communications between me and boychild from October to December 2008.
cunnilingus, transcendentalism, snakecharm, snork, gaggle, efterklang, lamé, arbitrarily, ramsey, gothish, prettyboy, purification and 25 more...
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Learned from Rap
Words I have learned by listening to hip-hop and rap.
burner, belvedere, biatch, shizzle, popo, boo-yaa, crunk, escalade, homeboy, jiggy, milkshake, booty and 3 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for crunk.
tutaref 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.) Sep 12, 2009
shinymcshine off the hook and crazy. that party was crunk! Jun 27, 2009
madmouth the Crunk is not unseldom drastic
and must be hindered by elastic Apr 30, 2009
oroboros Combination of crazy and drunk. Apr 25, 2009
bilby The sound a crane makes.
Nov 22, 2007
midnightisclose "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 Jan 9, 2007