A look at the Apple ‘Skankphone’, built before the original iPhone release
> It’s likely ‘skank’ in the name is a variation of ‘skunkworks’ which was the team working on the device.<p>Right, sure it is.<p>Urban Dictionary is nowhere near the mark then, with widely accepted definitions of the slang term from circa 2004: <a href="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Skank" rel="nofollow">http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Skank</a><p>Edit: To be clear I read it as being "trashy", "tacky", "ugly". There are numerous definitions, I wouldn't have attributed (nor imagine anyone else attributing) the most unsavoury definitions to anything.