One who is skanky. Usually a remark made to females(though can be made to males), means that the person is dirty, smelly, gross, slutty, you name it. Kind of a "catch-all" phrase.

Skanking seems best when listening to traditional ska, like The Skatalites. It's mostly the bending of the knees to the offbeat and doing something goofy with the hands. Sometimes it looks like the twist, or like you're juggling invisible items, or like you're pulling on a rope with both hands, but it's fun and nobody around you cares because they look sort of goofy too.

Third wave skank is actually a kind of retarded, mutated version of old skank, and since lots of third wave ska is fast and punk influenced, it looks spastic and weird. then again, lots of third wave bands like the articles and the New York ska-jazz ensemble are nice to skank to like the Skatalites are, too.

Skank is the sound that a guitar or keyboard makes in reggae music. That steady upbeat chop that is perhaps the most definitive sound of reggae. The skank was invented by the Skatalites as a way to make a unique sound to Jamaican music. It has lasted from the early 60's ska days until present day.

Keyboard players also can do a variation on the skank that is called the bubble. The bubble is kind of a triplet skank.

It is interesting to note that the mandolin part in much bluegrass has the same feel as the reggae skank.