What does "crunked" really mean?

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Is there an implication of marijuana use?

― Alex in TCBY (ex machina), Thursday, 7 April 2005 13:12 (twenty years ago)

According to http://www.playahata.com/pages/dictionary/dictionaryatog.html , it means "to get excited."

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 7 April 2005 13:19 (twenty years ago)

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=crunked&r=f

2. Crunked

A word complete and utter retards use to describe getting smashed.
Yeah, I was so crunked- Oh wait, here comes the short bus, I got to get on.
Source: Scondren, Nov 10, 2004

3. crunked
to get crazy drunk'ed
yo' i got crunked and then went over to my ladies hizze and we fumped
Source: jh con el digitale, Apr 27, 2003

― kingfish maximum overdrunk (Kingfish), Thursday, 7 April 2005 13:21 (twenty years ago)

That definition sounds more likely.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 7 April 2005 13:23 (twenty years ago)

crazy + drunk

I prefer curnk.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 7 April 2005 13:32 (twenty years ago)

the examples given on urbandictionary totally rule

― kingfish maximum overdrunk (Kingfish), Thursday, 7 April 2005 13:32 (twenty years ago)

A previous ILM thread described "crunk" as the sound of a really good party, which I think is perfect. So for something to be "crunked" to means that some really good partying has been inflicted upon the something in question.

― adam (adam), Thursday, 7 April 2005 14:04 (twenty years ago)

Er, to me means.

― adam (adam), Thursday, 7 April 2005 14:05 (twenty years ago)

i thought crunked was when you get so drunk that you end up being in a pr0n movie in which your faced gets crapped upon, and spunked.

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 7 April 2005 14:19 (twenty years ago)

crunk USED to be a synonym for fuck... for those of us that have known that word for 20 years...

what the crunk?
what the fuck?

mothercrunker.
motherfucker.

we got crunked up last night.
we got fucked up last night.

now it seems to be taking on alternate usage but sometimes i get the vibe that the original usage might still be in there somewhere.
m.

― msp (mspa), Thursday, 7 April 2005 14:20 (twenty years ago)

I always thought it came from the southernism, past tense of "crank" as in "I crunked the handle" or something...

― edd s hurt (ddduncan), Thursday, 7 April 2005 14:56 (twenty years ago)

Get crunked up = Get cranked up?

I thought that at first too.

― o. nate (onate), Thursday, 7 April 2005 15:17 (twenty years ago)

I prefer to get THOWED.

― happy fun ball (kenan), Thursday, 7 April 2005 15:31 (twenty years ago)

btw, once again we're debating a question that has one real answer.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Crunk

― happy fun ball (kenan), Thursday, 7 April 2005 15:33 (twenty years ago)

"137 definitions"

hehe.
m.

― msp (mspa), Thursday, 7 April 2005 16:11 (twenty years ago)

i like this theory:

Crunk
The word in Yiddish means "sick," and was brought into the Southern Black vernacular through the presence of European Jewish immigrant shopkeepers in black neighborhoods in cities such as Atlanta.
Can be used in the sense of "messed up" as in "these forks are crunk," and spread to "messed up" as from controlled substances

― Sym Sym (sym), Thursday, 7 April 2005 22:32 (twenty years ago)

That's gotta be utter bullshit.

I've never heard it in connection with anything other than alcohol. There are already a million was to describe being high on the ol' marijuana.

― sugarpants: bea arthur's secret lover (sugarpants), Thursday, 7 April 2005 23:41 (twenty years ago)

was = ways

― sugarpants: bea arthur's secret lover (sugarpants), Thursday, 7 April 2005 23:41 (twenty years ago)

get crunk = amped up variant of getting one's swerve on

― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 7 April 2005 23:44 (twenty years ago)

i was told it meant being stoned and drunk at the same time. the "CR" coming from "ChRonic"
i was lied to by a liar!

― Slumpman (Slump Man), Friday, 8 April 2005 00:52 (twenty years ago)

in my experience, crunk doesn't equal stoned + drunk.

stoned + drunk = big-time pukes.

― sugarpants: bea arthur's secret lover (sugarpants), Friday, 8 April 2005 01:07 (twenty years ago)

dead prez keep it crunked up, john blazed n shit but they never mentioned the big time pukes.

― Slumpman (Slump Man), Friday, 8 April 2005 01:18 (twenty years ago)

it's hard to write rhymes about puking, i think.

― sugarpants: bea arthur's secret lover (sugarpants), Friday, 8 April 2005 01:21 (twenty years ago)

maybe i am just a wuss. i will never realize my dream of being in dead prez. :(

― sugarpants: bea arthur's secret lover (sugarpants), Friday, 8 April 2005 01:22 (twenty years ago)

Suddenly, I am very happy to be over the age of 30.

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 8 April 2005 01:28 (twenty years ago)

before I knew of any actual definition (and before the "genre," when I associated it primarily w/ guess-which-hiphop-duo-famously-beloved-by-white-(and black)-folx), I thought of it as describing some sort of small-dark-strobe-lit-black-communal-dancefloor utopia, where sweat-induced humidity is the touchstone of lost inhibition and artifice. which might be consistent with the crazy + funk of urbandictionary's definition #5 - funk, yes, but regular funk would too slow and potentially depressive. which is why I dislike the crazy + drunk definition (though that may well describe the "genre") - it doesn't have the same overtones of ambition/transcendence.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 8 April 2005 02:08 (twenty years ago)

I like to use the term crunky when my daughter gets all cranky + grumpy.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Friday, 8 April 2005 14:34 (twenty years ago)

But it (i.e., the crazy + drunk definition) suggests its illusory, unreal aspect and a difference in the perspective of insiders and outsiders. (xpost)

― youn, Friday, 8 April 2005 20:43 (twenty years ago)

The "crunk" in "to get crunk" is a playful past-tense variant of "cranked" ("to have gotten cranked"). Since drink makes one drunk and crank makes one crunk, we may assume the term refers to rampant methamphetemine abuse.

― dr. liar (nabisco), Friday, 8 April 2005 20:49 (twenty years ago)

nabisco learn southern!

― j blount (papa la bas), Friday, 8 April 2005 20:52 (twenty years ago)

Posh and phsaw! Clearly the term refers to the practice of have cocaine blown into one's anus, a music-enhancing practice well-known to have been developed my Ms. Stevie Nicks during the recording of Fleetwood Mac's classic Rumors. As we all know, it is common parlance in the "hip-hop" world to refer to the buttocks as the "trunk," wherein one may or may not be storing various forms of "junk." When cocaine ("C") is administered through the anus (or, loosely, "trunk"), one becomes "crunk."

― dr. not a liar (nabisco), Friday, 8 April 2005 20:58 (twenty years ago)

Etymological imbeciles, the both of you! Any linguist worth his salt would recognize in "crunk" a variant of the Gullah term "crung" or "crungt" -- referring to the traditional practice of "crungting," a ritual still practiced both in the waters of the Atlantic and in the Gulf of Mexico. "Crungting" is a form of fishing in which one forgoes traditional baits and lures in favor of a narcotic paste made from various cedar and wormwood extracts. Chemicals in this paste are very attractive to fish, making them quite easy to catch; the only drawback is that the same chemical affect both the muscular and neural systems of the fish, making them flop and flail with a spastic fury known to overturn buckets and rip valuable nets. Thus does the term "crunk" refer to a state of excitement and inebriation which may mirror the state of "crungted" fish.

― dr. you are both wrong (nabisco), Friday, 8 April 2005 21:04 (twenty years ago)

Remember the path to transcendence.

― youn, Friday, 8 April 2005 21:04 (twenty years ago)

"Bubbe, they are totally crunk," my 10-year-old grandson informed me in a patois understood only by other fifth graders.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Saturday, 9 April 2005 20:41 (twenty years ago)

nabisco is everything ok at home?

― mark p (Mark P), Saturday, 9 April 2005 21:28 (twenty years ago)

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