1a steady-paced dance performed to reggae music, characterized by rhythmically bending forward, raising the knees, and extending the hands palms-downwards.
[mass noun] reggae music suitable for dancing the skank to.
2North American informal a sleazy or unpleasant person.
derogatory a promiscuous woman: the office skank
verb
1 [no object] (often as adjective skanking) play reggae music or dance the skank: a minimal skanking guitar the boys skank while some girls wiggle skanking rhythms
informal walk or move in a sexually suggestive way.
2 [with object] informal swindle or deceive: they made a tidy sum skanking the tourists
obtain by deception or theft: I skanked the poster off some wall
