Skank may refer to:
Music
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Skank (band)
Skank was a Brazilian pop rock band from Belo Horizonte. Having begun in 1991, they sold approximately 5,200,000 copies of their albums as of 2004. Initially intending to mix dancehall with traditional Brazilian styles, later the band changed its ...
, a Brazilian rock/pop/reggae/ska band
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''Skank'' (album), the band's self-titled debut album
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Skank (guitar)
The ska stroke up or ska upstroke, skank or bang, is a guitar strumming technique that is used mostly in the performance of ska, rocksteady, and reggae music.(2013). ''Smithsonian Music: The Definitive Visual History'', p.349. . It is der ...
, a guitar technique used in reggae, ska, and rocksteady
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Skank beat, a drum beat common in punk and heavy metal music
Other art, entertainment, and media
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Skank (dance)
Skanking is a form of dancing practiced in the ska, ska punk, hardcore punk, reggae, drum and bass and other music scenes.
The dance style originated in the 1950s or 1960s at Jamaican dance halls, where ska music was played. Ska music has a ...
, a form of dance related to ska, grime and hardcore punk
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''Skank'' (magazine), a British satirical magazine published 1994-97
* A vulgar slang term for a
promiscuous
Promiscuity is the practice of engaging in sexual activity frequently with different partners or being indiscriminate in the choice of sexual partners. The term can carry a moral judgment. A common example of behavior viewed as promiscuous by man ...
woman
See also
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The Rockafeller Skank
"The Rockafeller Skank" is a song by English big beat musician and DJ Fatboy Slim. It was released as the lead single from his second studio album, '' You've Come a Long Way, Baby'' (1998), on 8 June 1998. The single peaked at number six on the ...
", a song by Fatboy Slim
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Ska, a music genre that originated in Jamaica
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