Usually means: Dance style associated with ska.
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We found 22 dictionaries that define the word skank:

General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. skank: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. skank: Merriam-Webster
  3. skank: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. skank: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. skank: Collins English Dictionary
  6. skank: Vocabulary.com
  7. Skank, skank: Wordnik
  8. skank: Wiktionary
  9. skank: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. skank: Dictionary.com
  11. skank: Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. Skank (album), Skank (band), Skank (dance), Skank (guitar), Skank (magazine), Skank: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. skank: Rhymezone
  14. skank: FreeDictionary.org
  15. skank: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. skank: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. skank: Encyclopedia

Slang (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. skank, skank, skank, skank, skank: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)
  3. Skank: 1960's Slang
  4. SKANK, The Skank: Urban Dictionary
  5. skank: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom

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Definitions from Wiktionary (skank)

noun:  (derogatory, slang) A lewd and disreputable person, often female, especially an unattractive person with an air of tawdry promiscuity.
noun:  Anything that is particularly foul, unhygienic or unpleasant.
adjective:  (derogatory, slang) Lewd, vulgar, skanky.
noun:  A dance performed to ska, dub, or reggae music.
noun:  (music) A style of rhythmic guitar strumming in ska, reggae, and punk.
verb:  To dance the skank.
verb:  To play guitar with a skank rhythm.
verb:  (transitive or intransitive, Jamaica) To be dishonest or unreliable, to defraud or deceive, to steal.
noun:  The act of cheating a person.
verb:  (transitive) To cheat, especially a friend.

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