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CRUNK: Added to Webster's Dictionary

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Some folks have proclaimed that crunk is dead. Perhaps that's why Lil Jon had to prove naysayers wrong by setting a Guinness World Record for the "Largest Diamond Pendant" which read, "Crunk Ain't Dead."

The folks at Webster's Dictionary seem to agree with the southern rapper. The word "crunk" has been added to Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary. Here's how the dictionary defines it:

Main Entry:
crunk
Function:
noun
Etymology:
crunk, word of fluctuating meaning used during the 1990s in lyrics of the rap groups OutKast and Lil Jon & The East Side Boyz
Date:
2000
: a style of Southern rap music featuring repetitive chants and rapid dance rhythms

There are some discrepancies over at Urbandictionary.com about what crunk really means. You gotta love that site. Anyone can be a linguist.

Here are some of the entries from Urbandictionary.com:

ENTRY 1
its a mixture of the word crazy and drunk
i wanna go to a party and get crunk

ENTRY 4
Originally coined by Dr. Suess in 1972, in his book "Marvin K. Mooney will you please go now!".

"You can go in a Crunk-car if you wish."

ENTRY 6
1. To get Crunk is to have a good time.

2. Crunk is also thought to be derived from a combination or a portmanteau of the words "crazy" and "drunk", or a combination of "chronic" and "drunk", referring to the state of being both drunk from alcohol and high on marijuana, at the same time.

3. A style of music most commonly made by rap artists from the southern states, aka the Dirty South. Some crunk artists (or groups) are Lil' Jon, Pitbull, Lil' Scrappy, Trillville, and David Banner.

4. Something at a high level, as in volume.

ENTRY 7
Everybody here is wrong, it is not getting crazy and drunk. It's smoking chronic (marijuana) and getting drunk.

Chronic + Drunk = CRUNK



Other words added to Merriam-Webster include "smackdown" (that's a good one), "telenovela" and "ginormous."

Who the hell says ginormous?

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