The term originated in the early to mid 1990s in Memphis Tennessee.
Many will tell you it is a combination of crazy and drunk, combining to form "crunk". That is false.
It is more or less a derivative of crank that was bastardized by youth.
The best way to relate it is to compare it to a wind up toy. You crank it repeatedly, if you crank it too much you passed the point of "crank" and have moved on to "crunk". It is a level that was not intended by design and the potential energy contained now is off the charts. When unleashed there is an unstoppable wave that is almost beyond comprehension or measurement.
If you are "crunk" you are basically a juggernaut of energy and nothing will stop you and you won't care what happens until such point that you decide to stop.
Many will tell you it is a combination of crazy and drunk, combining to form "crunk". That is false.
It is more or less a derivative of crank that was bastardized by youth.
The best way to relate it is to compare it to a wind up toy. You crank it repeatedly, if you crank it too much you passed the point of "crank" and have moved on to "crunk". It is a level that was not intended by design and the potential energy contained now is off the charts. When unleashed there is an unstoppable wave that is almost beyond comprehension or measurement.
If you are "crunk" you are basically a juggernaut of energy and nothing will stop you and you won't care what happens until such point that you decide to stop.
by Crunk Panda November 18, 2007
by Crunkmaster 3000 January 05, 2021
by schoolin' mama June 23, 2006
Anyone who was of age in Atlanta in the mid-90s when this term came around knows it does not necessarily mean drunk. All yall non-southerners just heard the word and got the whole meaning twisted. Crunk comes from 'crank it up! now is crunk! crank it up! Now its crunk!' I was there so you don't know. And it just means to get all the way wild, shake your dreads: to be so unreasonably proud of where your from that you act like a maniac, you're just so excited and you don't know why. Like when you're in your car listening to Sammy Sam the hitman or Raheem the Dream. Or when you're at the club and you just go a lil loose and you're not even thanking about posturing for the opposite sex you just wanna unravel yourself and put the whole thang back together tomorrow.
by Drew Drew Drew September 21, 2007
Getting crunk is when you put on your fighting pajamas and reak havoc on the mats with skills you have learned from your female Jiu Jitsu Professor
by TerribleTamra March 17, 2019
Contrary to what the rest of you jackasses say about crunk being a mixture of crazy and drunk or chronic and drunk or what the fuck ever else you think. Crunk is southern slang for the passed tense of Crank. I.E. "I went to crank up the mower and it crunk right up." It was adopted into street slang by Southern rappers and DJ's wanting to "Crank up the club".
I know this. I'm from the dirty so ya'll can stop makin ish up now.
I know this. I'm from the dirty so ya'll can stop makin ish up now.
"Let's get dis club Crunk Up!" or "Was good big homie? Was da club poppin last night?" "Hells yeah dawg! Dat shit was Crunk!" or otherwise "Cranked Up.
by Sir Sauce December 05, 2011
by Matt Gray May 26, 2006