crunk

comparative crunker · superlative crunkest · alternative krunk

1. USslangAfrican-American VernacularCrazy and intoxicated.

   Get crunk, who u wit’?

   1997, Lil Jon & the East Side Boyz, Who U Wit, on Get Crunk, Who U Wit: Da Album

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   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?

   2002, Ashanti, Foolish/Unfoolish page 34

   I'm talking about everybody getting crunk, crunk Boys tryin' to touch my junk, junk Gonna smack him if he getting too drunk, drunk

   2009, Kesha, Tik Tok

alternative krunk

1. uncountableA type of hip hop that originated in the southern United States.

   2004, Crunk Classics [audio CD compilation title] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00029RT1M/

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   As Houston rap became a national sensation, spinning off into the “crunk” scene, it was hard to believe that just ten years earlier, the only Texas rap acts of any note were Donald “The D.O.C.” Curry, the Dallasite who hooked up with Dr. Dre and the N.W.A. crew, and the Geto Boys, who set out to make West Coast gangstas come off like Young MC.

   2005, Michael Joseph Corcoran, All Over the Map page 25

   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.”

   2005, Tamara Palmer, Country Fried Soul, page 17

   Use a “crunk” song for his cell-phone ring.

   2005, David Katz, Things a Man Should Never Do Past 30, page 27

present singular third person crunks · participle present crunking · participle past crunked · past crunked

1. intransitiveobsoleteTo cry like a crane.

   The crunking crane heard high amongst the clouds.

   1872, Nathaniel James Walter Le Cato, Theodora

1. dialectalparticiplepastsimple past and past participle of crank

plural Crunks

1. A surname.