mosh pit. slam dancing and Skanks

[Laurence Horn]

At 8:36 PM -0500 2/17/03, Jesse Sheidlower wrote:
>  >
>>  So, is this the origin of the current epithet "skank" for a loose woman?(or
>>  whatever it means)
>
>No, that term (of unknown origin) dates back at least to the
>early 1960s.
>
>Jesse Sheidlower
>OED

And as far as whatever it means, my favorite gloss comes from one of
the editions of the UCLA Slang Dictionary that Pam Munro edits:

SKANK:  a female slut