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Meanings of Funk in English

Russian
фанк
Portuguese
funk music
Spanish
música funk
Catalan
música funk
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Music genre that originated in African-American communities in the mid-1960s when African-American musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music through a mixture of soul music, psychedelic rock, jazz, and rhythm and blues (R&B)

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фанк
Portuguese
recuar
Catalan
contreure's
Spanish
recular

Draw back, as with fear or pain.

recuar
Portuguese
depressão

A state of nervous depression.

depressão
Portuguese
casimir funk
Catalan
casimir funk
Spanish
casimir funk

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)

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casimir funk
Usage of Funk in English
1
Dozens of new cases in New Arizona, same for Grand Funk Railroad.
Grand junction
2
That's important to the military's role as a public citizen, says Funk.
Wired
3
Five years later, the Queen of Funk embarked on her solo career.
Ebony
4
U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Jerry Funk in Jacksonville, Florida will oversee the case.
Reuters
5
Cartier's Island of Birds is the Funk Island of our present maps.
The Mariner of St. Malo : A chronicle of the voyages of Jacques ...
6
Denzil Miller was in a band out of Queens called Creative Funk.
Ebony
7
I sat down and quaffed a Doctor Funk, and then inquired idly:
Mystic Isles of the South Seas.
8
I'd clear the floor uptown if I chanced a heavy Trouble Funk track.
The Irish Times
9
The release of single Uptown Funk has been brought forward by five weeks.
BBC
10
Two of them were personal friends of mine, General Catlin and Dr. Funk.
T. De Witt Talmage as I Knew Him
11
But spokesman Albrecht Funk would not say why Schroeder met Putin.
Reuters
12
What happened to sensible names like Fred Funk, Fuzzy Zoeller and Duffy Waldorf?
The Guardian
13
G Funk premieres officially at the SXSW Conference on March 11th.
Ebony
14
This is the first word that Mr. Funk has coined commercially.
The new yorker
15
But Finding the Funk couldn't be a better, more thorough introduction.
Ebony
16
Luke Hurley from Auckland has chosen 'I'm Your Captain' by Grand Funk Railroad.
Radio NZ
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