Skanker

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Someone who dances the skank.

    "Yellowman, the salacious skanker whose purple raps have kept him in hot water for many years, had surgery recently. His ironic ailment? Cancer of the jaw."

  2. 2
    A dishonest person, a dissolute person. Jamaica

    "But please make sure you’re not a skanker out to give worries."

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"Yellowman, the salacious skanker whose purple raps have kept him in hot water for many years, had surgery recently. His ironic ailment? Cancer of the jaw."

Etymology

From skank + -er.

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