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punk
  1. (countable) A juvenile delinquent; a young, petty criminal or trouble-maker; a hoodlum; a hooligan.
  2. (countable) Any worthless person.
  3. (uncountable) A social and musical movement rooted in rebelling against the established order.
  4. (uncountable) The music of the punk movement, known for short songs with electric guitars, strong drums, and a direct, unproduced approach.
  5. (punx) A person who belongs to that movement and/or listens to that music, a punk rocker.
  6. Synonyms:
  7. Examples:
    1. “She is a street punk who is a member of the Jokerz gang.”
      “This one Sunday, some young punk roared up in his hot-rod and parked directly behind the car currently being washed.”
punk
  1. (uncountable) Any material used as tinder for lighting fires, such as agaric, dried wood, or touchwood, but especially wood altered by certain fungi.
  2. (countable) A utensil for lighting wicks or fuses (such as those of fireworks) resembling stick incense.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “She is a street punk who is a member of the Jokerz gang.”
      “This one Sunday, some young punk roared up in his hot-rod and parked directly behind the car currently being washed.”
punkling
  1. (obsolete) A young strumpet
  2. Someone young associated with the punk movement or music.
punkishness
  1. The quality of being punkish.
  2. Punkish behavior.
punkster
  1. Someone, especially a young person, associated with the punk subculture or a performer of punk-influenced music.
punkette
  1. A female member of the punk subculture.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Only in a world where Limp Bizkit pass for metal could this Tiffany retread ever be mistaken for punk, or punkish, or punkette.”
      “Her neurotic, green-haired, New York punkette role as Clementine Kruczynski in the movie was a revelation.”
      “Mandy, now a 37-year-old sales rep with two children, was a teenage punkette still at Huntington school back then.”
punkitude
  1. (informal) The quality or state of being a punk; punkishness.
punkdom
  1. The world or sphere of punk music and subculture.
punky
  1. Alternative spelling of punkie
punklings
  1. plural of punkling
punksters
  1. plural of punkster
  2. Examples:
    1. “The latest offering from Frenchie punksters Burning Heads seems to belie the cliche that punk is dead.”
      “Now we plan to open a welcome centre staffed by punksters and anarchists and squatters.”
      “The video turned out to be a hoax, perpetrated by a group of punksters at a site called The Chive.”
punkettes
  1. plural of punkette
punkies
  1. plural of punkie
  2. Examples:
    1. “Included among the invertebrates are moth flies, wood gnats, midges, punkies, mosquitoes, marsh beetles, and beelike or wasplike syrphid flies.”
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