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  • noun music, dated A punk rocker: a performer of punk rock

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punk +‎ -er

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Examples

  • Biker, when I seen the name punker above it reminded me of a time when I was on the streets in LA more dead than alive, here came 7 tough punkers that look the way you described, all different colored hair etc etc, I looked like a bum my self, however I was looking at them and them at me as they were passing, and one of them said, to me, .. "

    Recent Activity Kid 2010

  • I refer to myself as aging-hipster because it sounds funnier than old-punker which is what I am.

    BSNYC Hot Friday Quiz Action! BikeSnobNYC 2009

  • Mr. Berner introduced Mr. Shepherd to his "punker" friends in Prien, a picturesque town near the Austrian border.

    U.S. Deserter 'Having Time of My Life' as He Seeks Asylum in Germany 2009

  • I refer to myself as aging-hipster because it sounds funnier than old-punker which is what I am.

    BSNYC Hot Friday Quiz Action! BikeSnobNYC 2009

  • That is one awesome fishing show, and I had no idea you were a punker, hells yeah!

    Have Camera, Will Shoot Fishing Videos 2009

  • From the bloody hematoma on his forehead to the true Manchu beard-mustache combo, bloody cuts on his body and guaranteed-to-offend tattoos, this seven-inch tall likeness of the late punker best known for using the stage as a toilet, performing naked and attacking his fans is for the hardcore only.

    Boing Boing 2009

  • I am never quite clear on whether all this is sartorial or sardonicDad’s way of announcing that he used to be a punker but is now a middle-school English teacher, or if becoming a teacher has actually turned my dad into this genuine throwback.

    Excerpt: If I Stay by Gayle Forman 2009

  • That is one awesome fishing show, and I had no idea you were a punker, hells yeah!

    Have Camera, Will Shoot Fishing Videos 2009

  • This is a tale of a young woman named Alice Fell, a teenage American punker who has been having visions of the London Eye all her life (and before there was such a thing), so follows her vision to the UK and falls into a conspiracy that moves through secret societies (and shadowy assailants) all the way back to the origins of the Holy Grail myth.

    Feast Your Eyes... Lou Anders 2008

  • This is a tale of a young woman named Alice Fell, a teenage American punker who has been having visions of the London Eye all her life (and before there was such a thing), so follows her vision to the UK and falls into a conspiracy that moves through secret societies (and shadowy assailants) all the way back to the origins of the Holy Grail myth.

    Archive 2008-04-01 Lou Anders 2008

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