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comparative crunker, superlative crunkest
(US, slang) Crazy and intoxicated. quotations
Get crunk, who u wit’?
1997, Lil Jon & the East Side Boyz, Who U Wit, on Get Crunk, Who U Wit: Da Album
Let me tell you how I like it / If we’re all in a crowd / I like to be the one they single out / Let me tell you how to please me / Can you get it crunk and make my body jump?
2002, Ashanti, Foolish/Unfoolish page 34
I'm talking about everybody getting crunk, crunkBoys tryin' to touch my junk, junkGonna smack him if he getting too drunk, drunk
2009, Kesha, Tik Tok
uncountable
A type of hip hop that originated in the southern United States. quotations examples
As Houston rap became a national sensation, spinning off into the “crunk” scene, it was hard to believe that just ten years earlier, the only Texas rap acts of any note were Donald “The D.O.C.” Curry, the Dallasite who hooked up with Dr. Dre and the N.W.A. crew, and the Geto Boys, who set out to make West Coast gangstas come off like Young MC.
2005, Michael Joseph Corcoran, All Over the Map page 25
On Slanguistics, a special on the MTV2 cable network, Andre 3000 offered a succinct analogy for crunk. “What punk was to rock,” he explains, “crunk is to rap.”
2005, Tamara Palmer, Country Fried Soul, page 17
Use a “crunk” song for his cell-phone ring.
2005, David Katz, Things a Man Should Never Do Past 30, page 27
third-person singular simple present crunks, present participle crunking, simple past and past participle crunked
(intransitive, obsolete) To cry like a crane. quotations
The crunking crane heard high amongst the clouds.
1872, Nathaniel James Walter Le Cato, Theodora
(dialectal) simple past and past participle of crank examples