different between gank vs jank

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æ?k/
• Rhymes: -æ?k

Etymology 1

Verb

gank (third-person singular simple present ganks, present participle ganking, simple past and past participle ganked)

1. (transitive, slang) 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.

2. (transitive, slang) To 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.

Etymology 2

From gang and kill.

Verb

gank (third-person singular simple present ganks, present participle ganking, simple past and past participle ganked)

1. (transitive, Internet, online gaming, slang) To kill much weaker players in an online video game in such a way that they cannot defend themselves. Common methods include attacking in much greater numbers or taking a well-equipped high-level character to assault players in a starting area.

   Our group totally ganked this guy.

Anagrams

• Kang, kang, knag

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From German Gang

Noun

gank m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. (Kajkavian) passage
2. (Kajkavian) hall, hallway, corridor

Related terms

• prolaz, hodnik

English

Etymology

Ostensibly back-formation from janky (“shoddy, poor quality”).

Noun

jank (uncountable)

1. (computing, slang, rare) Perceptible pause in the smooth rendering of a software application's user interface due to slow operations or poor interface design.
   • 2013, Nick Sutrich, Android Headlines

     This also marks the first time I haven’t felt that Samsung jank on the phone, which deserves its own paragraph in its own right. That weird stuttering and pausing you’ve seen on so many Samsung phones seems to be almost completely gone on the Note 3 […]

   • 2013, Addy Osmani, Smashing Magazine

     In cases where you’re concerned about scrolling, the browser can manage the frame rate for you. But if you introduce a large amount of jank, then it won’t be able to do as good a job.

   • 2015, Bogdan Petrovan, Android Authority

     in order to hit this impressive frame rate, the “jank-free” Sky prioritizes the UI over other processes, meaning the app should stay smooth when it works heavily in the background.

   • 2018, Eli White, Facebook React Native Blog

     Even though JavaScript will try to update the animation every frame, it will likely not be able to do that fast enough and will cause dropped frames (jank) to occur.

Related terms

• janky

Adjective

jank (comparative more jank, superlative most jank)

1. (computing, slang, rare) janky (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??k

Noun

jank c (plural janken, diminutive jankje n)

1. yowl, howl, cry

Synonyms

• gejank

Related terms

• janken

Verb

jank

1. first-person singular present indicative of janken
2. imperative of janken

Westrobothnian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²j??k/, /²j??k/, /²jæ?k/

  Rhymes: -???k, -à?k

  Homophone: Janck

Etymology

A k-derivative of jamn (“even.”)

Verb

jank

1. adjust, e.g. to smoothen out or cut evenly