2 definitions by Anjuli Ambani

One who steals or plagiarises other's work and tries to pass it off as their own. Worse is that they first try to convince someone else to pass it off to see if they get caught, and if not, then they go ahead and use the content.
"So what did that shanky guy get for the programming assignment?"

or

"Did you write that code yourself?"
"No, I did a shanky and stole it off the net"
by Anjuli Ambani August 4, 2007
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One who steals or plagiarises other's work and tries to pass it off as their own. Worse is that they first try to convince someone else to pass it off to see if they get caught, and if not, then they go ahead and use the content.
"So what did that shanky guy get for the programming assignment?"

or

"Did you write that code yourself?"
"No, I did a shanky and stole it off the net"
by Anjuli Ambani July 17, 2007
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