A groovy earthy vibe. Used mostly in music. Originally sourced from the intimate scent of a woman.
Lord, that's a funky groove!
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Noun: A feeling that you get when you just need to dance. This feeling overrides everything...you just NEED to dance. It is most often accompanied with groovy tunes.
"Dude, I'd come watch that movie right now but I've got a case of THE FUNK so badly that it hurts."
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An unfriendly altercation in the Bay Area. Funk means a problem is going to occur momentarily because two opposing groups have just arrived at the same location. In Hawaii they call it beef. In the Bay Area, it's funk.
"There's about to be some funk up in here bro. Some drunk ass fools just walked in talkin' all kinds trash about Jr."
"I hope I don't see JR this time. I've got mad funk with that fool."
"You got some funk?! Bitch!"
"Them boys are funkin' all the time!"
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1) A foul odor.
2) A style of R&B music whose artists include James Brown, Parliament-Funkadelic (aka P-Funk) and Red Hot Chili Peppers.
3) Depressed mood.
1) Somebody take out the garbage, it's funking the whole apartment up.
2) I love playing funk bass.
3) I need to get drunk to get out of this funk.
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verb: to freak to the point of exhaustion and ecstasy (to funk, funk'd, funk'ng)
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Different Interpretations depending on the current context.
1. In relation to a genre of music.
( Disco , Jazz , Soul )
2. Regarding material items or lifestyle.
( Money , Hustle , Liveliness , Vigorousness )
1. "Dancin' and singin' and movin' to the groovin'
And just when it hit me somebody turned around and shouted
Play that funky music white boy
Play that funky music right
Play that funky music white boy
Lay down that boogie and play that funky music till you die
Till you die, oh till you die" - Play That Funky Music White Boy by Wild Cherry(1976)
2. "I hear a beat I grab the mic, and then I start this workin'
The kids around the way used to think that I was buggin
But they don't understand how I feel about the funk
I walk with the funk, I talk with the funk
I eat with the funk, I sleep with the funk
I live for the funk, I'll die for the funk
So now what do they say, when I'm walkin' up the block?
Boom shaka laka there goes the Chief Rocka" - Chief Rocka by Lords of the Underground(1993)
Bay Area rappers use the term to refer to conflict/animosity/violence/discord/gang war
-"And any nigga in his right mind don't want no funk" --Richie Rich
-"I ain't trippin, I just wanna rap man, I don't want funk with another black man" --Mac Dre
-"And Mrs. Mossberg, livin in that back trunk, you know that old school bitch, she like to get in funk" --Spice 1
-"Don't be actin like no bitch when the funk is on, cause if them niggas catch you slippin then yo ass is gone" --Spice 1
-"Uzis and 9s were kept in the trunk, cause the north and the south had high power funk" --Mac Dre
-"The funk is on" --lots of Bay area rappers say this really (meaning the same as "it's on")
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