Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to skank
Participle: skanked
Gerund: skanking
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | skank |
| you | skank |
| he;she;it | skanks |
| we | skank |
| you | skank |
| they | skank |
Perfect
| I | have skanked |
| you | have skanked |
| he;she;it | has skanked |
| we | have skanked |
| you | have skanked |
| they | have skanked |
Past
| I | skanked |
| you | skanked |
| he;she;it | skanked |
| we | skanked |
| you | skanked |
| they | skanked |
Pluperfect
| I | had skanked |
| you | had skanked |
| he;she;it | had skanked |
| we | had skanked |
| you | had skanked |
| they | had skanked |
Future
| I | will skank |
| you | will skank |
| he;she;it | will skank |
| we | will skank |
| you | will skank |
| they | will skank |
Future Perfect
| I | will have skanked |
| you | will have skanked |
| he;she;it | will have skanked |
| we | will have skanked |
| you | will have skanked |
| they | will have skanked |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | skank |
| you | skank |
| he;she;it | skank |
| we | skank |
| you | skank |
| they | skank |
Perfect
| I | have skanked |
| you | have skanked |
| he;she;it | have skanked |
| we | have skanked |
| you | have skanked |
| they | have skanked |
Imperfect
| I | skanked |
| you | skanked |
| he;she;it | skanked |
| we | skanked |
| you | skanked |
| they | skanked |
Pluperfect
| I | had skanked |
| you | had skanked |
| he;she;it | had skanked |
| we | had skanked |
| you | had skanked |
| they | had skanked |
Conditional
Present
| I | would skank |
| you | would skank |
| he;she;it | would skank |
| we | would skank |
| you | would skank |
| they | would skank |
Perfect
| I | would have skanked |
| you | would have skanked |
| he;she;it | would have skanked |
| we | would have skanked |
| you | would have skanked |
| they | would have skanked |
Imperative
| you | skank |
| we | Let's skank |
| you | skank |
Verbs conjugated like 'skank'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'skank'
shank,
skink,
skunk,
spank,
stank,
swank,
bank,
blank,
brank,
chank,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
Originally Jamaican, attested from the twentieth century, but earliest source is uncertain. The verb sense be dishonest is evidently older. Perhaps originally onomatopoeic. The dance senses may come from a resemblance to motorcyclists weaving between larger vehicles. Compare skanker.
Sample Sentences
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Four-thousand miles away, there is a reggae night spot called Club 69, where local youth wear dreadlocks... and dance ska, rocksteady, and skank to the beats of the Wailers.... Club 69 is in Tokyo, the dread youths are Japanese. [1998, Billy Bergman, Hot Sauces: Latin and Caribbean Pop, 1985, quoted in Craig Lockard, Dance of Life: Popular Music and Politics in Southeast Asia, page 51:]
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Joe Strummer and Mick Jones did a lot of skanking. Skanking refers to a style of playing using scratch (page 17) rhythms with a strong accent on the off-beats (1 & 2 & 3 & 4 &) rather than the on-beats. [1999, Tobias Hurwitz, Punk Guitar Styles, page 24:]
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Only Tosh, Marley and Livingston had been signed, and Aston Barrett harboured an unarticulated resentment that later would be couched in the language of betrayal[…] In any event ‘Family Man’ believed that they had an oral agreement, and placed his faith in Marley (from whom they received their wages) that he would not skank them. [2011, Colin Grant, I & I: The Natural Mystics: Marley, Tosh and Wailer, page 210:]