phonk

Alteration of funk.

• enPR: fŏngk
• (Received Pronunciation, Canada, General Australian, New Zealand, India) IPA^(key): /fɒŋk/
• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /fɑŋk/
• (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /fɔŋk/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɒŋk

phonk (uncountable)

1. A style of music derived from hip-hop and trap music, directly inspired by 1990s Memphis rap.
   • 2024 April 15, Andy Ward, Briony Luttrell, Lachlan Goold, “How a global crisis, drift racing and Memphis hip-hop gave us phonk – the music of the TikTok generation”, in The Conversation‎^[1], archived from the original on 23 April 2024:

     Artists such as DJ Screw, a hip-hop DJ originally from Texas, initially championed phonk by using this palette of sounds in their mixtapes – and helped popularise the style through the mid-’90s.

2. Drift phonk.
   • 2024 April 15, Andy Ward, Briony Luttrell, Lachlan Goold, “How a global crisis, drift racing and Memphis hip-hop gave us phonk – the music of the TikTok generation”, in The Conversation‎^[2], archived from the original on 23 April 2024:

     By smashing together components of hip-hop, EDM, metal and dubstep, phonk is placed as one of the most prominent new genres of music.

Unadapted borrowing from English phonk.

phonk m (uncountable)

1. phonk
   • 2017 February 28, David Broc, “El ‘phonk’, el sonido futurista del ‘hip hop’, triunfa en Internet”, in El País‎^[3], archived from the original on 2 March 2017:

     ¿Por qué el phonk se ha colado entre las preferencias del usuario de Soundcloud?

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

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