Definitions For Crunk

Etymology 1

Origin {{unk, en, title=obscure}}. Compare {{cog, is, krunka, t=to croak}}, {{cog, en, cronk, t=the honk of a goose}}.

Verb

{{en-verb}} (obsolete, intransitive) To cry like a crane.

Etymology 2

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”.Miller, Matt: "". Popularized by its use in the {{w, fusion genre}} of {{w, crunk}} music in the 1990s and especially early 2000s. In this context, first used in music lyrics and notably popularized by {{w, Lil Jon & the East Side Boyz}}, on their 1997 debut album {{w, Get Crunk, Who U Wit: Da Album}} (Get Crunk, Who [are] You With[?]: The Album)."Lil Jon crunks up the volume", NY Times, November 28, 2004 Various possible origins have been proposed: * crazy, drunk “crazy drunk”. * chronic, drunk, marijuana “high on marijuana and drunk (on alcohol) at the same time”./">t1=marijuana “high on marijuana and drunk (on alcohol) at the same time”. From a dialectal past tense of crank. See w:crunk#etymology, 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.See for information on the high probability of chance similarity among languages.

Alternative forms

krunk

Adjective

{{en-adj, er}} (US, slang) Crazy and intoxicated.

Noun

CRUNK (uncountable) A type of hip hop that originated in the southern united states.

Derived terms

aquacrunk

See also

w:crunk, wikipedia article on crunk

References