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PRONUNCIATION:

(kruhnk)

MEANING:

adjective:
1. Intoxicated.
2. Crazy.
3. Excited.
4. Wonderful.

ETYMOLOGY:

Of uncertain origin. Possibly a nonstandard past tense of crank, a variation of drunk, or a blend of crazy + drunk. Earliest documented use: 1972.

NOTES:

The first recorded use of crunk appears in Dr. Seuss’s 1972 book Marvin K. Mooney Will You Please Go Now! where it describes a strange vehicle. This early usage seems unrelated to the later senses of the word. The word is also the name of a hip-hop subgenre, characterized by heavy bass call-and-response chants, and accelerated tempos.

USAGE:

“Blow a .08, you’re drunk. Blow a .18? You’re crunk: Some Memphis police officers got crunk over the weekend.
About 4 am Friday they were called to ... where a white pickup being driven the wrong way had crashed into a building.
The driver, a 31-year-old Florence, Ala., man, was -- in copspeak -- ‘glassy-eyed, unsteady on his feet, with the odor of intoxicant on his breath and person.’
His name? Samuel Crunk.”
Daybreak; The Commercial Appeal (Memphis, Tennessee); May 18, 2005.
[See nominative determinism.]

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