JANKY Definition & Meaning

janky

[jang-kee]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

Slang.

inferior in quality.
a low-budget janky recording.
not working or operating properly: the game's janky interface.
a janky old car;
the game's janky interface.
untrustworthy; disreputable.
He's a good guy but has some weird and janky friends.
undesirable; dilapidated or run-down.
He's from the janky part of town where there was a shooting the other night.

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Origin of janky¹

First recorded in 1990–95; origin uncertain; perhaps a regional or affected pronunciation of junky ¹ ( def. )

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It was a Black New Orleans band with horns and background singers and a violin player — not Juilliard violin but like a janky New Orleans violin.

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Obsessed with past wrongs, Jabir has been quietly building a time machine, a contraption that looks like a janky iron lung.

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“It had a bunch of janky roller coasters and spinning things,” Koekkoek recollected.

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A lot of thought has been put into how a janky old phone or wireless earbuds might affect Emily and Sam’s communication.

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There are Russian oligarchs and business titans, strongmen, burner phones, janky bars and SROs, and dubious, shadowy figures with dirty hands.

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