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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



... that old Latin proverb we used to get off at college? I was punk in Latin, but I never forgot that—'Harus pex ad harus picem' when one priest meets another it's to smile! The lawyers are the high priests of the modern world. Only ...
— The Root of Evil • Thomas Dixon

... and buy for your money. A delicate ballad o' the ferret and the coney. A preservative again' the punk's evil. Another goose-green starch, and the devil. A dozen of divine points, and the godly garter The fairing of good counsel, of an ell and three-quarters. What is't you buy? The windmill blown down by the witche's ...
— 1601 - Conversation as it was by the Social Fireside in the Time of the Tudors • Mark Twain

... boy who has not experienced the feelings that must come to a rooster that has been in a hard battle and lost the greater part of his tail feathers, he is one who has never looked over his record and endeavored to rub out the punk spots. There are but few boys who have not an exaggerated ego, and it is well that they are so constituted, they will better battle with the rebuffs and the disappointments that ...
— Watch Yourself Go By • Al. G. Field

... lampblack, fine threads plaited together in strands, cotton soaked in boiling tar, lamp-wick, twine, tar and lampblack mixed with a proportion of lime, vulcanized fibre, celluloid, boxwood, cocoanut hair and shell, spruce, hickory, baywood, cedar and maple shavings, rosewood, punk, cork, bagging, flax, and a host of other things. He also extended his searches far into the realms of nature in the line of grasses, plants, canes, and similar products, and in these experiments at that time and later he carbonized, made into lamps, ...
— Edison, His Life and Inventions • Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin

... "Punk orders, when each man is provided with a hundred rounds of rifle ammunition, and when each automatic gun is supplied with two thousand rounds!" grumbled Coxswain Riley, ...
— Dave Darrin at Vera Cruz • H. Irving Hancock



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



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