Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An often aggressive or violent young man.
- noun An inexperienced young person.
- noun A cowardly or weak young man.
- noun Punk rock.
- noun A punk rocker.
- noun Slang A young man who is the sexual partner of an older man, especially in prison.
- noun Archaic A prostitute.
- intransitive verb To act in a cowardly manner. Often used with out.
- intransitive verb To humiliate (someone). Often used with down or out.
- intransitive verb To dupe or deceive.
- intransitive verb To play a practical joke on.
- noun Dry decayed wood, used as tinder.
- noun Any of various substances that smolder when ignited, used to light fireworks.
- noun Chinese incense.
- adjective Of poor quality; worthless.
- adjective Weak in spirits or health.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To strike or pound with the closed fist.
- noun A punch or pound with the closed fist.
- noun Wood decayed through the influence of a fungus or otherwise, and used like tinder; touchwood.
- noun Tinder made from certain fungi. See
amadou and fungus-tinder. - noun A prostitute; a courtezan.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Wood so decayed as to be dry, crumbly, and useful for tinder; touchwood.
- noun A fungus (
Polyporus fomentarius , etc.) sometimes dried for tinder; agaric. - noun An artificial tinder. See
Amadou , andSpunk . - noun obsolescent A prostitute; a strumpet.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun countable A juvenile delinquent, young petty criminal or trouble-maker.
- noun countable A utensil for lighting wicks or fuses (such as those of fireworks) resembling stick incense.
- noun obsolete, countable A
prostitute ;courtezan . - noun countable (19th century, rare) The
bottom in a male-male sexual relationship; acatamite . - noun US, prison slang A male used for sex by larger or stronger
inmates , apussyboy - noun uncountable A social and musical movement rooted in rebelling against the established order.
- noun uncountable The music of the punk movement, known for short songs with electric guitars, strong drums, and a direct,
unproduced approach. - noun countable A person subscribing to the movement, a
punk rocker . - noun countable A
worthless person. - adjective Of, or resembling the punk
subculture - verb To
pimp . - verb To forcibly perform
anal sex upon an unwilling partner. - verb To
prank . - verb To give up or concede; to act like a
wimp .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun substance that smolders when ignited; used to light fuses (especially fireworks)
- noun rock music with deliberately offensive lyrics expressing anger and social alienation; in part a reaction against progressive rock
- noun material for starting a fire
- noun an aggressive and violent young criminal
- noun a teenager or young adult who is a performer (or enthusiast) of punk rock and a member of the punk youth subculture
- adjective of very poor quality; flimsy
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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That's what we found at HONK!, where there were marching bands as big as armies, like New York's Rude Mechanical Orchestra; groups that made the term punk-rock marching band make sense, like What Cheer! from Providence; and bands that tossed off Balkan tunes with an easy virtuosity, like Seattle's Orchestar Zirkonium.
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Coyote's choice of the highly gendered term punk is retrospective, not contemporary to the events he describes; still, it is telling that he chooses this term when remembering a moment when he feared he might project effeminate weakness by declining to attend.
Manhood in the Age of Aquarius: Masculinity in Two Countercultural Communities, 196583 2007
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That this punk is a G.C. Deutsch "III", could it be he is a NASA legacy and that is how he got the post??????
BREAKING NEWS: George Deutsch Did Not Graduate From Texas A & M University Nick Anthis 2006
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Two loaves of what he called punk, with a box of crackers, lay on a newspaper.
Letters of a Woman Homesteader Elinore Pruitt Stewart
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Two loaves of what he called punk, with a box of crackers, lay on a newspaper.
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Quick question: How many genres or sub-genres end in "punk"?
Question for the hive mind: Genres and Sub-genres joshenglish 2009
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Post punk is just kind of in the blood, so that comes out all the time.
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I'm not sure what that Weiland punk is doing, besides whining that his arms hurt from working out.
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F&F for being same old crappy brainwashed head in its 4th point of contact un-american, un-patriotic scum bag pond scum sucking stool. you need help going threw life as someones punk is not what real men do.
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And, speaking as someone involved in punk rock for the better part of ten years, I can say that even subcultures that claim to be politically enlightened when it comes to "women's issues" and female participation still fall short a lot of the time.
skipvia commented on the word punk
The Leaves were a proto-punk garage band from Los Angeles, known mainly for their recording of "Hey Joe." See Free Association.
February 12, 2008
treeseed commented on the word punk
I saw the Leaves several times and they RULED!
February 12, 2008
skipvia commented on the word punk
A truly great band. Jim Pons, bassist, went on to play with Frank Zappa (and the Turtles, for which I guess I'll forgive him...)
February 13, 2008
yarb commented on the word punk
"Now I want you to notice the smell of the punk, Tommy. Something like a peculiar incense. It has a smell so completely its own. You light your punk and it just glows on the end."
- Malcolm Lowry, October Ferry to Gabriola
July 30, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word punk
"Crust punk" can be seen here. (but why would you want to?)
January 15, 2009