ganked

[Johanna N Franklin]

    I have heard it - mainly in high school in southern IL, 4 years ago,
but it didn't mean that something was broken.  It always meant that
someone had managed to get something, as in "Hey, I ganked the concert
tickets!"  The connotation was generally that it had taken some effort
to get the item, and it never meant theft.

    Johanna Franklin

Excerpts from mail: 27-Jul-100 ganked by Jessie Emerson at SIRSI.COM
> A friend of mine sent me a reference to "ganked" (spelling is guessed),
> pronounced /gengkt/ to rhyme with "spanked".  Do any of you know the origin,
> or have you heard it before?
>
> " I was on a flight from Philadelphia, landing in Huntsville [Alabama]. A
> couple of  Generation X-men were playing video games (I think) using laptop
> computers  on their trays. When the flight attendant told them they needed
> to put them
>  away for landing, the one directly behind me, apparently having difficulty
> manipulating the tray in front of him, exclaimed in frustration, 'Man, this
>  tray is totally ganked!'"


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