skanker

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See also: skänker

English

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Etymology

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From skank +‎ -er.

Noun

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skanker (plural skankers)

  1. Someone who dances the skank.
    • 1985 October, Richard Steffens, “World Beat”, in SPIN[1], page 18:
      Yellowman, the salacious skanker whose purple raps have kept him in hot water for many years, had surgery recently. His ironic ailment? Cancer of the jaw.
    • 1986 May, Andrea ’Enthal, “Underground”, in SPIN[2], page 39:
      From the whispered vocals in Shadow of Fear’s “Now’s the Time,” with its softly flanged streaks, to the punky Idiot Humans, whose metal-edged “Dressed in Green” howls and growls for skanker’s delight, Pelted is either delightfully or annoyingly consistent.
  2. (Jamaica) A dishonest person, a dissolute person.
    • 1996, Weekly Gleaner, 1973, quoted in Richard Allsopp (ed.) Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage, page 510:
      But please make sure you’re not a skanker out to give worries.
    • 2015 July 10, Met, “TO THOSE WHO DON’T WANT TO COME HERE BUT DO (comment)”, in Jamaican Matey Groupie[3]:
      Including di skanker wid di cane cause when mi si fi him video and di comment whey dem all a come include Toya ina it like Toya was a teef.

References

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  • “skanker n” in Richard Allsopp, Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage (1996).