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skank
verb- to work a confidence trick; to operate a fraud; to work behind someone’s back UK
West Indian and UK black slang which spread into wider criminal circles. An earlier, surviving usage is a dance style, which imagery suggests the possible etymology is of a figurative dance around the victim of the trick. - Tucker couldn’t get his head round it, that this cheeky geezer had tried to so blatantly skank him with a fake fifty. — Dave Courtney, Raving Lunacy, p. 101, 2000
- And if I had intended to skank him wouldn’t I have been long gone by now[?] — Lanre Fehintola, Charlie Says ..., p. 108, 2000 [H]e’s been skanking him bad style. — Kevin Sampson, Clubland, p. 2, 2002
- to move to reggae rhythms in a particular loose-limbed style JAMAICA
- De tongue plays a beat / De body starts skanking / Dis poetry is quick an childish[.] — Benjamin Zephaniah, Man to Man, p. 12, 1992
- [T]he greying rastaman behind the sound decks was happy to skank along with the music as he drew on a pungent stick of sensi. — Karline Smith, Moss Side Massive, p. 10, 1994
- to steal something UK
- Backup matches just in case some fucker skanks his three clipper lighters in different colours. — Nick Barlay, Curvy Lovebox, p. 34, 1997
- The temptation is there to skank somethin but I don’t bother[.] — Niall Griffiths, Kelly + Victor, p. 224, 2002
- — Peter Patrick, Some Recent Jamaican Creole Words, 2003
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