funk
noun
- 1
an earthy type of jazz combining it with blues and soul; has a heavy bass line that accentuates the first beat in the bar
- 2
United States biochemist (born in Poland) who showed that several diseases were caused by dietary deficiencies and who coined the term `vitamin' for the chemicals involved (1884-1967)
- 3
a state of nervous depression
he was in a funk
verb
- 1
draw back, as with fear or pain
she flinched when they showed the slaughtering of the calf
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