One who is deeply involved with the underworld culture of amphetamine addiction. The individual usually carries a long criminal record, and has a history of drug-related robberies and crimes. Usually the individual will have many tattoos and speak with a slang vernacular distinctive to the amphetamine and/or prison lifestyle.
"I don't trust that guy in my house, he just got out of prison and he's already got a gun and gone back to his old crankster gangster ways."
Crackhead/tweeker who regularly uses crack crank tina methamphetamine speed or other strong stimulants but doesn't let it rule their life.
Don't you worry about Joe, because he is a crackstar! I'm talkin' CCRRRR-ACK STAR! Okay?! He's regularly awake for 2 or more days and still gets his retarded butt to work, accomplishes tasks and errands, pays his bills, and comes back from Normalville to do it all again.
Someone from a rural area trying to look and act as if they are a gangster from the hard streets of the big city. Country + Gangster = Cranksta
Jethro is such a cranksta with that fake limp he walks around with and those 24 inch wheels on his Deawoo. You know he grow up working on his dad's farm in Alabama and has never even seen a real gangster besides the ones he saw in the movie Boyz n the Hood, right?
Nickname given to bales of marijuana thrown overboard or out of airplanes. Origin is reportedly from members of the US Coast Guard in the area of Southern Florida.
A sunburn or suntan focused on the left arm. It is caused by the left side of the body being the only half that gets exposed to sunlight while driving. Presumably, it would be located on the right side of the body in countries where they drive on the left side of the road.
I had a trucker's tan after driving for 10 straight hours on a sunny day.
British slang for a scientist or technical expert, esp . when the speaker is not certain of the expert’s specific field of study. Not necessarily derogatory, but typically used by persons without a technical background. In the US, the equivalent would be “egghead”, “squint”, or “geek.”
Origin of the word is unknown. Started sometime in World War 2. Given the typical evolution of British slang, could easily have started because what these experts did was confusing or “baffling” to the common person.