释义 |
rank verb- to disparage; to insult, especially in a formulaic or ritual manner US
- — Lou Shelly, Hepcats Jive Talk Dictionary, p. 16, 1945
- — J. R. Friss, A Dictionary of Teenage Slang (Mt. Diablo High), 1964
- — Collin Baker et al., College Undergraduate Slang Study Conducted at Brown University, p. 181, 1968
- Hey, you know; like that’s what I come all the fucking way up here for, but if you gon rank me, I’ll go somewhere else and spend my money. — Vernon E. Smith, The Jones Men, p. 165, 1974
- They knew what “ranking” and “snapping” on someone meant. — New York Amsterdam News, p. 34, 29 September 1979
- — Inez Cardozo-Freeman, The Joint, p. 525, 1984
- There are many different terms for playing the dozens, including “bagging, capping, cracking, dissing, hiking, joning, ranking, ribbing, serving, signifying, slipping, sounding and snapping”. — James Haskins, The Story of Hip-Hop, p. 54, 2000
- to bungle or ruin something US
- — Hyman E. Goldin et al., Dictionary of American Underworld Lingo, p. 174, 1950
- He just hoped Sister Heavenly wouldn’t do anything to rank his play. — Chester Himes, Come Back Charleston Blue, p. 49, 1966
- But the trouble began when I ranked my hand / And stopped blowing and started to hit. — Dennis Wepman et al., The Life, p. 84, 1976
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