Dictionaries › English

crunk

Pronunciation: /kɹʌŋk/

The English word “crunk” has 3 meanings listed here.

adjective

  1. Crazy and intoxicated.

noun

  1. A type of hip hop that originated in the southern United States.

verb

  1. To cry like a crane.

Etymology

Attested in the Southern US since the late 1980s, originally in the sense of “rowdy, high energy out-of-control behavior by a crowd at Southern night clubs”. Popularized by its use in the fusion genre of crunk music in the 1990s and especially early 2000s. In this context, first used in music lyrics and notably popularized by Lil Jon & the East Side Boyz, on their 1997 debut album Get Crunk, Who…

Keep exploring: in the interactive dictionary every word of a definition is a link. Open “crunk” there

More English words

About this dictionary

The English dictionary on Glottosphere has 650,529 entries with a page. Browse the English dictionary.

Definitions are from Wiktionary, extracted by Kaikki.org, and are available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.