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Meanings of Funk in English
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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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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Examples for "blue funk"
Examples for "blue funk"
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Not agree, Major, only chance for us put him in blue funk.
2
Squatting there in a blue funk, struggling with guilt, wasn't doing any good.
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You look to me to be in an absolute blue funk.
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I hope you won't despise me for having been in a blue funk.
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But I don't mind admitting that I'm in a blue funk.
Usage of Funk in English
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Dozens of new cases in New Arizona, same for Grand Funk Railroad.
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That's important to the military's role as a public citizen, says Funk.
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Five years later, the Queen of Funk embarked on her solo career.
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U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Jerry Funk in Jacksonville, Florida will oversee the case.
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Cartier's Island of Birds is the Funk Island of our present maps.
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Denzil Miller was in a band out of Queens called Creative Funk.
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I sat down and quaffed a Doctor Funk, and then inquired idly:
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I'd clear the floor uptown if I chanced a heavy Trouble Funk track.
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The release of single Uptown Funk has been brought forward by five weeks.
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Two of them were personal friends of mine, General Catlin and Dr. Funk.
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But spokesman Albrecht Funk would not say why Schroeder met Putin.
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What happened to sensible names like Fred Funk, Fuzzy Zoeller and Duffy Waldorf?
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G Funk premieres officially at the SXSW Conference on March 11th.
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This is the first word that Mr. Funk has coined commercially.
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But Finding the Funk couldn't be a better, more thorough introduction.
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Luke Hurley from Auckland has chosen 'I'm Your Captain' by Grand Funk Railroad.
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Ireland
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United States of America
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