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Punk   /pəŋk/   Listen
Punk

noun
1.
An aggressive and violent young criminal.  Synonyms: goon, hood, hoodlum, strong-armer, thug, tough, toughie.
2.
Substance that smolders when ignited; used to light fuses (especially fireworks).
3.
Material for starting a fire.  Synonyms: kindling, spunk, tinder, touchwood.
4.
A teenager or young adult who is a performer (or enthusiast) of punk rock and a member of the punk youth subculture.  Synonym: punk rocker.
5.
Rock music with deliberately offensive lyrics expressing anger and social alienation; in part a reaction against progressive rock.  Synonym: punk rock.



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"Punk" Quotes from Famous Books



... had just fed the Punk Lady waltz into the pianola for the fourth time as we pulls up ...
— Odd Numbers - Being Further Chronicles of Shorty McCabe • Sewell Ford
... in Pennyfields, many times a day, This person pays respect to Big Man Joss, And burns to him prayer-papers and punk-sticks. ...
— Song Book of Quong Lee of Limehouse • Thomas Burke
... in the right, my venerable cropshin, they will indeed; the tongue of the oracle never twang'd truer. Your courtier cannot kiss his mistress's slippers in quiet for them; nor your white innocent gallant pawn his revelling suit to make his punk a supper. An honest decayed commander cannot skelder, cheat, nor be seen in a bawdy-house, but he shall be straight in one of their wormwood comedies. They are grown licentious, the rogues; libertines, flat libertines. They forget they are in the statute, the rascals; they are blazon'd ...
— The Poetaster - Or, His Arraignment • Ben Jonson
... hand he took out of the basket a small vessel in which punk was burning slowly, and he lighted the ...
— The Pharaoh and the Priest - An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt • Boleslaw Prus


Words linked to "Punk" :   stripling, igniter, malefactor, ignitor, adolescent, bully, felon, criminal, rock 'n' roll, rock, teen, colloquialism, teenager, rock'n'roll, lighter, inferior, rock-and-roll, crook, outlaw, rock and roll, rock music


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