Punk (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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noun
  1. Slang.
    • something or someone worthless or unimportant.
    • a young ruffian; hoodlum.
    • an inexperienced youth.
    • a young male partner of a gay man.
    • an apprentice, especially in the building trades.
    • a passive or submissive male inmate, especially one who is used for sex by another male inmate.
  2. punk rock.
  3. a style or movement characterized by the adoption of aggressively unconventional and often bizarre or shocking clothing, hairstyles, makeup, etc., and the defiance of social norms of behavior, usually associated with punk rock musicians and fans.
  4. a punker.
  5. a prostitute.
adjective
  1. poor in quality or condition.
  2. of, relating to, or characteristic of punk rock: a punk band.
  3. pertaining to, characteristic of, or adopting punk styles: punk youths; punk hairstyles in various colors.
noun
  1. any prepared substance, usually in stick form, that will smolder and can be used to light fireworks, fuses, etc.
  2. dry, decayed wood that can be used as tinder.
  3. conk3.
  4. a spongy substance derived from fungi; amadou; touchwood.
  1. a combining form extracted from cyberpunk used to denote a rebellious, alternative genre or aesthetic in speculative fiction, art, fashion, etc., and added to a word that names its distinctive theme, often a form of technology: steampunk; solarpunk; hopepunk.
noun
    • a youth movement of the late 1970s, characterized by anti-Establishment slogans and outrageous clothes and hairstyles
    • an adherent of punk
    • short for punk rock
    • (as modifier)
  2. an inferior, rotten, or worthless person or thing
  3. worthless articles collectively
  4. a petty criminal or hoodlum
  5. a young male homosexual; catamite
  6. a prostitute
adjective
  1. inferior, rotten, or worthless
noun
  1. dried decayed wood that smoulders when ignited: used as tinder
  2. any of various other substances that smoulder when ignited, esp one used to light fireworks
Punk (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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