crunk

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On Feb 13, 2008 10:34 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Urbandictionary.com has more than anyone but a doctoral candidate could wish to know
> about "crunk" *and* "krunk."
>
>   Essentially, it's a noun designating a style of music or an adjective meaning wildly
> intoxicated on one or more legal or illegal substances.
>
>   Perhaps it was a sound effect in one of Don Martin's cartoons for _Mad_ in the dim past.
> Memory fails me.

I don't know about that, but it did appear in the Dr. Seuss classic
_Marvin K. Mooney, Won't You Please Go Home_ (1972): "You can go on
stilts. You can go by fish. You can go in a Crunk-Car if you wish."


--Ben Zimmer

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