skank

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IPA（発音記号）

/skæŋk/

動詞

ジャマイカ英語 自動詞 他動詞

To dance the skank. / To play guitar with a skank rhythm. / (transitive or intransitive, Jamaica) To be dishonest or unreliable, to defraud or deceive, to steal.

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At the beachfront party, friends began to skank together, moving rhythmically to the reggae beat.

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意味（1）

To dance the skank.

Four-thousand miles away, there is a reggae night spot called Club 69, where local youth wear dreadlocks... and dance ska, rocksteady, and skank to the beats of the Wailers.... Club 69 is in Tokyo, the dread youths are Japanese.

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意味（2）

To play guitar with a skank rhythm.

Joe Strummer and Mick Jones did a lot of skanking. Skanking refers to a style of playing using scratch (page 17) rhythms with a strong accent on the off-beats (1 & 2 & 3 & 4 &) rather than the on-beats.

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意味（3）

(transitive or intransitive, Jamaica) To be dishonest or unreliable, to defraud or deceive, to steal.

Only Tosh, Marley and Livingston had been signed, and Aston Barrett harboured an unarticulated resentment that later would be couched in the language of betrayal[…] In any event ‘Family Man’ believed that they had an oral agreement, and placed his faith in Marley (from whom they received their wages) that he would not skank them.

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skanks （ 現在形 単数形 三人称 ）

skanking （ 分詞 現在形 ）

skanked （ 分詞 過去形 ）

skanked （ 過去形 ）