Etymology: The term (Gank) was first used as a street slang starting in the year 1990 in Westminster
Colorado.
Three individuals are specifically responsible for the creation and common place use of the word “Gank” as (Ganking) is done with a specific intent of being aware of what the real problem is.
Gang affiliated locations such as Westminster
Colorado in the 1990s being a suburb of Denver had a
heavy (Crip) and (Blood) influenced counter culture.
Meaning: To “Gank” is to steal or take with great pride. Viewed by youth in the 1990s as a right of passage against a broken corrupted capitalist
government and society. To Gank was to participate in taking back what the corrupt think they have control over or own. Ganking is a direct reversal of power directed at what is truly evil and wrong with the world.
Example Sentences:
We “Ganked” some packs of cigarettes so we didn’t have to pay
Big-Tobacco for the pesticides and ammonium nitrates they are poisoning and killing us with.
We walked into the liquor store and straight up “Ganked” some alcohol so that the companies who made the poison wouldn’t profit from our hangovers, failing livers, and eventual deaths.
We “Ganked” those pills so that
big-Pharma wouldn’t profit off of our
government implemented opiate addiction.