punk

Definitions  ·  Examples  ·  Pronunciations  ·  Etymologies  ·  Related  ·  Statistics  ·  Comments (5)  · 
“
This punk should be arrested, all his assets seized and be locked up for treason.

View all »
Definitions (23)

Toggle American Heritage definitions American Heritage Dictionary (11)

  1. noun Slang A young person, especially a member of a rebellious counterculture group.
  2. noun Slang An inexperienced young man.
  3. noun Music Punk rock.
8 more from this dictionary »

Toggle Century definitions Century Dictionary (5)

Toggle GNU Webster definitions GNU Webster's 1913 (1)

Toggle WordNet definitions WordNet (6)

Toggle elsewhere links Elsewhere on the web

View all »
Examples (50)

  • Maurice should have been the new boss—not this punk, which is how Maurice refers to him. —  EQMM,September-October2007
  • But this isn't spaz-punk, and in the end, "Fracture" pulls its own weight (and then some). —  Baltiblogs
  • As you can clearly see from this photograph taken yesterday* punk is alive and well on Bushwick Avenue. —  newyorkshitty.com
  • I suppose I am more of a fan of melodic punk / pop punk, as these songs on this album is much too much for me. —  Covers
  • Manhattan. 8 p.m. Barocco Flash / Iris Ska punk, art rock. —  The St. Petersburg Times
More examples »
 

Tags

punk hasn't been tagged yet.

Sign up or sign in to add tags.

Stats

This word has been looked up 185 times.

stop updating
On Twitter

Photos from

flickr images

Add a related word »
Related

Roget's II Roget's II: The New Thesaurus

Used in the same context Used in the Same Context

indie ·  pop ·  thug ·  jazz ·  bastard ·  hip-hop ·  brat ·  hoodlum

Used in the same contextWord Family

punk:   punks
Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition by the Editors of the American Heritage® Dictionary. Copyright © 2003, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Etymologies (5)

Toggle American Heritage etymologies American Heritage Dictionary (2)

  1. Origin unknown.
  2. Probably of eastern Algonquian origin.

Toggle Century etymologies Century Dictionary (3)

  1. apparently reduced from spunk. Cf. funk, rotten wood.
  2. Variant of punch, v.
  3. Variant of punch, n.
 

Pronunciations
Record your own »
/pəŋk/
by American Heritage

Charts
frequency chart

Bubble size: how much this word was used in a year

Bubble height: used more or less than expected, vs. all uses evenly distributed

You can expect to see this word about twice a week.

Recently looked up

supervision · Tattooing · forceps · indentation · Dishneau

Recent Favorites

pygopagus · sanglant · Astacus · sweetbread · qualms

Recent Pronunciations

Glockenspiel · Ersatz · Blaukraut bleibt Blaukraut und Brautkleid bleibt Brautkleid · Haifischschwanzflossenfleischsuppe · Der Kottbusser Postkutscher putzt den Kottbusser Postkutschkasten