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crunk

adj
/kɹʌŋk/

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 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.

  1. derived from *drinkaną✻
  2. inherited from *drunkanaz✻
  3. inherited from druncen
  4. inherited from drunke
  5. compounded as crunk — “crazy + drunk”

Definitions

  1. 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

  2. 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/
    • 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.”

  3. To cry like a crane.

    • The crunking crane heard high amongst the clouds.
  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. simple past and past participle of crank

    2. A surname.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA