janky

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
19
Words With Friends
21
Letters
5
Pronunciation
/ˈd͡ʒæŋ.kiː/
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/ˈd͡ʒæŋ.kiː/ · [ˈd͡ʒæŋ.kʰɪi̯] · /ˈd͡ʒeɪ̯ŋ.ki/ (US) · [ˈd͡ʒeɪ̯ŋ.kʰɪi̯] ~ /ˈd͡ʒɛ̃ŋ.ki/ (US) · [ˈd͡ʒɛ̃ŋ.kʰɪi̯] (US)

Definition of janky

4 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (informal, slang)Of poor quality.
    “It's barely holding together, it's so janky.”
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adj

  1. (informal, slang)Of poor quality.
    “It's barely holding together, it's so janky.”
  2. (slang)Strange, odd.
    ““And look, they don't even call them cigarettes. They call them fun tubes.” “Well, I guess,” said Hillary. “Talk about a janky role model. Candy cigarettes.””
    “We're gonna do some janky shit. When you're doin' janky shit, you wear a mask.”
  3. (slang)Untrustworthy, disreputable.
    “Janky promoters trying to fuck up my lil' image / They fucked us over, only way you get the picture”
  4. (colloquial)Unresponsive (of a software application’s user interface), sluggish.
    “While the asynchronous HTTP call is running on a background thread (preventing a janky UI, or ANRs), the user can navigate away from the activity after the request has been sent but before the response has been received by the device.”
    “If you love B-movies, crazy sci-fi and intense, janky-as-all-hell videogames, you’ve come to the right place.”

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From junky.

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