Les Jones: Word of the Day: Crunk

January 25, 2006

Word of the Day > Word of the Day: Crunk

Crunk

Part of speech - noun, adjective, or verb.

Definition - I'm not exactly sure.

Seriously. The Urban Dictionary gives lots of definitions. Here are the first three:

It's a mixture of the word crazy and drunk
i wanna go to a party and get crunk
In 1995, Conan O'Brien and Andy Richter were scheming ways to get past the TV censors on Conan's late night talk show, and they settled on an all-purpose, suitable replacement for the infamous seven dirty swearwords that they couldn't say on TV: Crunk. The choice to use that word was definitely not random. Ice T just happened to be on the show that night, and he likely fed the word to them beforehand and certainly helped fuel its popularity during the telecast ("That was seriously crunked up, right there.").

Fucked up. Usually high and drunk.
I got crunk last night.

I'll leave it to the hip youngsters to define it. Paging Chris Wage! Paging Brittney! Paging Blake! Paging Mr. Roboto! (Who will hopefully illustrate the crunk ideal using photos of inebriated Nashville debutantes.) BTW, Roboto is back from the land of the unblogging, and I borrowed both of these photos from his site. BTW*2, the third and fourth girls from the left are giving the sign of the shocker.

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For the record, I've never heard anyone use the word "crunk" that wasn't an idiot, or using it ironically. It was a bit after my time.. Wikipedia is on the spot though with some good info

Posted by: Chris Wage at January 24, 2006

God bless slutty women

Posted by: countertop at January 24, 2006

Preach on, Brother Countertop!

Posted by: Josh at January 25, 2006

Hrumpf...I guess young ladies these days have nothing better to do.Does boredom affect the young so badly these days? I am not a prude but what is that suppose to do ? Make a old man like me lust in my heart aka Jimmy Carter ? I guess what few micomolecules of testosterone there are still in my blood must be too busy helping me to keep my secondary sex characteristics going to generate any lustful thoughts at seeing these young women.I guess I must be a tad bit peevish....

Posted by: ANGRYWOLF at January 25, 2006

The "crazy-plus-drunk" and "fucked up" definitions are pretty spot on when describing a person. Some guys I met in the Navy would also describe a place or situation as being "crunk" and in that case, it meant that things were wild or that it was generally a good time.

A certain style of hip-hop is often described as "crunk." Musically, crunk tends to be Southern with a driving beat. This style is predominant among rappers from New Orleans, Atlanta and Memphis. Houston rap is different in that the beats are slower and "syrupy."

Posted by: JR at January 25, 2006

I'd like to add that those girls making the shocker hand sign are not my friends, but were waiting in line for job interviews/tryouts at Coyote Ugly in Nashville. I bet their college transcripts were in their briefcases (not pictured).

Posted by: Roboto at January 25, 2006

those girls making the shocker hand sign are not my friends

Bet ya wish they were :)

ere waiting in line for job interviews/tryouts at Coyote Ugly in Nashville

Like I said

God bless slutty women

though the Coyote Ugly here in DC has got to be one of the 10 worst bars I ever went to.

Posted by: countertop at January 25, 2006

Les, for the record, even though our friend Chris is only 26, I think he takes great pride on being ignorant towards pop culture. He probably wouldn't admit that though. As for crunk, I totally had to ask Chris' little brother what it meant.....

Posted by: Amanda at January 25, 2006