janky

something so pretentious and fancy that it’s almost disgusting; gaudy.
“that restaurant is so janky, you have to get reservations 6 months in advance” – guy
“this car is a little too janky for my tastes, how are you affording this?” – guy2
(adjective) inferior quality; held in low social regard; old and delapidated; refers almost exclusively to inanimate material objects, not to people
we tried to pick up on these girls waiting for the bus, but i was driving my sister’s janky 1989 geo metro so we just got clowned instead.
adjective used to describe a person, place or thing which is questionable, f-cked up, wrong, strange, broken down, undesirable, and/or just some thing you can’t think of another word for. the origin of this work is explained somewhat in the conversation example. friends and i were sitting around drinking coffee one morning, and i was b-tching about my empty cup when my friend blamed the lack of coffee on the “janky -ss coffee maker.” i have since heard the word in the movie friday.
other forms: janked, janked up, janked out,
i was dancing with my friends and some janky old m-th-rf-cker came up to me and started grabbin’ my -ss!

mich-lle: yo, when’s that coffee going to be ready?

crystal: i don’t know. this janky -ss coffee maker takes forever.

he was a weirdo and made me feel all janked out, so i left.

i didn’t get into harvard. i don’t know what i’m going to do now – it’s totally janked up.
poorly constructed or of poor quality
this janky shirt she gave me is falling apart.
poorly constructed or put together, and does not seem like it should function at all, although it may perform beyond expectations.
that entire computer system is janky
a conjunctive form of both sk-nky and junky, thus denoting something both gross and in poor condition.
my friend, larry, lives in a real sh-t-hole. there’s dirty socks on the couch and it smells of bong-water. man, that place is janky!
undesirable; less-than optimum.
your mother cooks janky collard greens.
sorry -ssed, broke down, or tore up. shady, or h-lla foul.
originally heard when i lived in the east bay area from the rapper chunk. also see janked out.
janky hoes don’t get chose. any liquor store that don’t sell the super socko & gin is janky as all f-ck. this nucka’s hizzy is janked out like a crankhouse.

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