English
Verb
en-verb
- transitive To swindle.
#* 1989, The Beastie Boys in "Car Thief" from the album Paul's Boutique
#*: Then I met this girl she tried to gank me / So I smacked her in the booty with M.C. Plank Bee
#*2001, Delphine Jamet, Street Kid in the City 1
#*: Jay was ganked (mugged) for $55 by some Noongar boys when Brad told them he had a lot of money on him.
#*2004, Mike Sager, Scary Monsters and Super Freaks: Stories of Sex, Drugs, Rock 'n' Roll and Murder Page 135
#*: Just as Eazy had robbed Lonzo at Crew Cut Records, Suge and Dre had now ganked Eazy. This time, however, there was a slight problem.
#*2004, U.S. Congress Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Combating Gang Violence in America Page 28
#*: And in the old days, you know, if you ganked a drug dealer, they would beat you senseless.
- transitive To rob, steal.
#*2002, A. K. Stanfield, Zen Smoking: A Mock Epic with Stock Characters Page 261
#*: �I ganked these from the Major's house last night,� I explained, reaching into the backpack to withdraw the two books.
#*2006, N. Frank Daniels, Futureproof Page 206
#*: It was one of the syringes Splinter ganked from the hospital the other day when he was in there for chest pains.
- context|transitive|Internet|slang To copy, reproduce, reuse, or save an image, idea, or work of another person, often in the context of materials posted on the Internet. Ganking can occur with or without permission.
#: May I gank your icon?
#: The music in the following parody was ganked from the original.
- context|transitive|Internet|slang To kill, ambush, or defeat with little effort; used in online games.
#: So I totally ganked this priest in Westfall.
#: I hate it when corpse-campers gank me over and over again.
Quotations
2004, J Gingold in LiveJournal? uhlume 2
2005, Paul Koehler, in LiveJournal? amischief 3 [post title]
2006, Erin Lefey, in LiveJournal? �Erin�s Path� 4 [post title]
Category:English slang
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