Funk is silence.

And that's when Nneka gets into what she calls her funk.

Most fans traveling to Brazil will not have heard any baile funk (dance funk) because it has been banned for its popularity in favelas and for its racy sounds, which feature police sirens and gunshots.

Funk has appeared in the NWA, AWA, WWF E, WCW, ECW, ROH, and TNA.

According to The Economist The Congress Party is in a funk and in danger of long term decline.

The patient is the American consumer the world s biggest by far, but now in the throes of the worst funk since the Great Depression.

Colombians were in a funk, and they took it out on Santos. He recovered by the second round, but won by a much smaller margin than anyone expected six months ago.

In the meantime, they do serious damage because Europeans are so worried about the possibility of reform that the mere possibility of such reforms actually being enacted plunges them into a funk.

One shudders to think what will happen if Europe does not pull out of its current funk. Certainly, Europe would lose traction as a badly needed counterweight to the US in world economic policy.

Do you know what causes fatigue in you or what brings out your energetic self, what triggers cause you to be depressed or what fun things are going to bring you out of that funk?

The high point of the Public Theater, I think, was in 1996, two years after I designed it, which was the Bring in 'da Noise, Bring in 'da Funk campaign that was all over New York.

Given this, it might seem premature, to say the least, to announce the return of the West, especially at a time when the US economy remains fragile, Europe s financial crisis is fueling an existential funk, and Japan s deep structural malaise continues.