"crunk" meaning in English

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Adjective

IPA: /kɹʌŋk/ Audio: En-au-crunk.ogg [Australia] Forms: crunker [comparative], crunkest [superlative]
Rhymes: -ʌŋk 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. Etymology templates: {{blend|en|crazy|drunk}} Blend of crazy + drunk, {{blend|en|chronic|drunk|t1=marijuana}} Blend of chronic (“marijuana”) + drunk, {{m|en|crank}} crank, {{m|de|krank||sick, ill}} krank (“sick, ill”) Head templates: {{en-adj|er}} crunk (comparative crunker, superlative crunkest)
  1. (US, slang) Crazy and intoxicated. Tags: US, slang
    Sense id: en-crunk-en-adj-EX3cML4W Categories (other): American English
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: krunk
Etymology number: 1

Noun

IPA: /kɹʌŋk/ Audio: En-au-crunk.ogg [Australia]
Rhymes: -ʌŋk 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. Etymology templates: {{blend|en|crazy|drunk}} Blend of crazy + drunk, {{blend|en|chronic|drunk|t1=marijuana}} Blend of chronic (“marijuana”) + drunk, {{m|en|crank}} crank, {{m|de|krank||sick, ill}} krank (“sick, ill”) Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} crunk (uncountable)
  1. A type of hip hop that originated in the southern United States. Tags: uncountable Categories (topical): Musical genres Derived forms: aquacrunk, crunkmeister
    Sense id: en-crunk-en-noun-AmL-zsq2 Disambiguation of Musical genres: 6 59 11 25 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 8 51 2 39 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 8 41 2 49
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: krunk
Etymology number: 1

Verb

IPA: /kɹʌŋk/ Audio: En-au-crunk.ogg [Australia] Forms: crunks [present, singular, third-person], crunking [participle, present], crunked [participle, past], crunked [past]
Rhymes: -ʌŋk Etymology: Uncertain. Compare Icelandic krunka (“to croak”), English cronk (“the honk of a goose”). Etymology templates: {{uncertain|en}} Uncertain, {{cog|is|krunka|t=to croak}} Icelandic krunka (“to croak”), {{cog|en|cronk|t=the honk of a goose}} English cronk (“the honk of a goose”) Head templates: {{en-verb}} crunk (third-person singular simple present crunks, present participle crunking, simple past and past participle crunked)
  1. (intransitive, obsolete) To cry like a crane. Tags: intransitive, obsolete
    Sense id: en-crunk-en-verb-2D0~2UaP
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Verb

IPA: /kɹʌŋk/ Audio: En-au-crunk.ogg [Australia]
Rhymes: -ʌŋk Etymology: Germanic ablaut formation. Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} crunk
  1. (dialectal) simple past and past participle of crank Tags: dialectal, form-of, participle, past Form of: crank
    Sense id: en-crunk-en-verb-LKySuP4u Categories (other): English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 8 41 2 49
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 3

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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