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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"
Shanky by Anjuli Ambani August 4, 2007
damn Kimmy’s shanky as fuck
shanky by Chaelin Williams June 4, 2018
1. A person who is shady/sleazy and skanky.

2. Acting shady and skanky.
She snorted that shit off the toilet, man. Not the counter, not a boob. A toilet. So shanky.
shanky by Toad4Life June 25, 2009
A person or place that is both shady and skanky.
"Yo, dawg. Dis club is straight up shanky."
Shanky by Regulus132 January 20, 2009
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"
SHANKY by Anjuli Ambani December 31, 2008
(Adjective) Related to the word janky, this is an added definition which means someone is janky enough to shank you.
"I would never be caught in an alley with them. They're shanky!"

"Watch out for that man in the trench coat, he looks really shanky!
shanky by Lo-Cra February 26, 2009