A name for a girl from India.
Person 1: Who is that? What's her name?
Person 2: Her name's Janki.
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Something that is defective, sub-par, sketchy or questionable.
Uhle is janky ever since he decided to skip work in order to go camping.
I would never go camping with Uhle as he is super janky in the way he always wants to share a tent and sleeping bag with someone.
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A conjunctive form of both skanky and junky, thus denoting something both gross and in poor condition.
My friend, Larry, lives in a real shit-hole. There's dirty socks on the couch and it smells of bong-water. Man, that place is janky!
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When something messed up, wrong, stupid (can refer to someone or something)
That shit is jankie
Stop bein jankie steve
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an undesireable item that has both bad taste in style and quality.
That old shoe is janky.
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Of questionable strength or worth; ramshackle or rigged in an unprofessional manner; ludicrously cheap or ill-suited to a given purpose; laughable; e.g. George W. Bush. Origin: Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity, Reno, NV, USA circa 1996 (earliest known)
That lifeboat is janky! Look at the duct tape job.
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An adjective describing an object or location that is of poor quality or broken down. While expressing negative characteristics, janky is often used as a term of endearment for objects past their prime but still appreciated.
My '92 civic has terrible mileage, manual windows, and a broken stereo but I'd never get rid of it. I love that janky car.
You hungry? I know this janky Chinese restaurant downtown. Probably violates ten health codes but the chow mein is amazing.
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