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Ganks vs Lanks - What's the difference?

ganks | lanks |

As verbs the difference between ganks and lanks

is that ganks is third-person singular of gank while lanks is third-person singular of lank.

ganks

English

Verb

(head)
  • (gank)

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    gank

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (slang) To swindle.
  • * 1989 , The Beastie Boys in "Car Thief" from the album Paul's Boutique
    • Then I met this girl she tried to gank me / So I smacked her in the booty with M.C. Plank Bee
  • *2001 , Delphine Jamet, Street Kid in the City [http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN1865085030&id=4535LUpaODsC&pg=RA26-PT4&lpg=RA26-PT4&dq=ganked&sig=HmEVVrF2HQAWuZ9wo2gWusdExd8]
    • Jay was ganked (mugged) for $55 by some Noongar boys when Brad told them he had a lot of money on him.
  • *2004 , Mike Sager, Scary Monsters and Super Freaks: Stories of Sex, Drugs, Rock 'n' Roll and Murder Page 135
    • Just as Eazy had robbed Lonzo at Crew Cut Records, Suge and Dre had now ganked Eazy. This time, however, there was a slight problem.
  • *2004 , U.S. Congress Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Combating Gang Violence in America Page 28
    • And in the old days, you know, if you ganked a drug dealer, they would beat you senseless.
  • (slang) To steal.
  • *2002 , A. K. Stanfield, Zen Smoking: A Mock Epic with Stock Characters Page 261
    • “I ganked these from the Major's house last night,” I explained, reaching into the backpack to withdraw the two books.
  • *2006 , N. Frank Daniels, Futureproof Page 206
    • It was one of the syringes Splinter ganked from the hospital the other day when he was in there for chest pains.
  • (transitive, Internet, online gaming, slang) To kill, ambush, or defeat with little effort; used in online games.
    • Our group totally ganked this guy.
    I hate it when corpse-campers gank me over and over again.

    Anagrams

    * ---- ==Serbo-Croatian==

    Noun

  • passage
  • hall, hallway, corridor

    • Related terms

    * (l), (l)

    lanks

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (lank)

    • lank

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Slender or thin; not well filled out; not plump; shrunken; lean.
  • * Meager and lank with fasting grown. - .
  • * Who would not choose ... to have rather a lank purse than an empty brain? - .
  • * Blacks in the fields, lank'' and stooped, their fingers spiderlike among the bolls of cotton. - 1985 , chapter 1.
  • (of hair) Straight and flat; thin and limp. (often associated with being greasy)
  • * Lank hair, long, thin hair. -
  • (obsolete) languid; drooping.
  • * Who, piteous of her woes, reared her lank head. -
    • (Macaulay)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (rare) To become lank; to make lank.
    • (Webster 1913)

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