Definition
In slang, the word “rank” is an informal adjective that means disgusting or very unpleasant.
For example – “The smell from the basement was absolutely rank.”
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This first clip is from the Inbetweeners movie and the character Will is feeling dismayed with how his holiday with his friends is going so he says he feels like putting stones in his pockets and chucking himself in the pool. His friend Neil tells him not to because the pool is “rank”. It is shown in the movie earlier that their hotel is not a very sanitary place.
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The second clip is from the series Tin Star. An excited daughter asks her mother to try dipping one of her fries into her milkshake. The mother obliges but unfortunately doesn’t enjoy the taste and describes it as rank.
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The third clip is from the series Grey’s Anatomy and a doctor is checking a patient whose symptoms include very bad breath. In fact, it is so bad he describes it himself as “rank”
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The last clip is from the series The last clip is from the film Adult Life Skills. The female character had drawn a moustache on her face while playing with a kid she was looking after. The woman then meets her mother who is not impressed and tries to wipe off the moustache with a tissue and her spit. Repulsed by this the woman tells her mother that it is “rank”.