skank

Meanings

1. A lewd and disreputable person, often female, especially an unattractive person with an air of tawdry promiscuity.
2. Anything that is particularly foul, unhygienic or unpleasant.

1. Lewd, vulgar, skanky.
2. Foul, unhygienic.

1. A dance performed to ska, dub, or reggae music.
2. A style of rhythmic guitar strumming in ska, reggae, and punk.

1. To dance the skank.
2. To play guitar with a skank rhythm.
3. To be dishonest or unreliable, to defraud or deceive, to steal.

1. The act of cheating a person.

1. To cheat or betray, especially a friend.
2. To steal, or otherwise acquire underhandedly.

Etymology

Unknown. Perhaps from skag (“unattractive woman”), but the origins of skag are unknown. Compare scold (“troublesome woman”), skeevy (“disgusting”). Attested from the 1960s.