punk[noun]Synonyms: nonsense, balderdash, baloney, bosh, bunk, bunkum, claptrap, flummadiddle, hogwash, hot air, novice, apprentice, beginner, colt, fledgling, neophyte, newcomer, novitiate, rookie, tenderfoot, tough, b'hoy, bullyboy, mucker, rough, roughneck, rowdy, ruffian, toughie, yahoo
[adjective]Synonyms: bad, amiss, bum, crappy, dissatisfactory, poor, rotten, unsatisfactory, up, wrong
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punk /pʌŋk/
noun[
Sense 1-3: Date: 1900-2000;
Origin: Perhaps from punk 'prostitute' (16-20 centuries). ]
[
Sense 4: Date: 1600-1700;
Origin: Perhaps from spunk 'material for lighting fires'; ⇒ spunk]
1. [uncountable] (
also ˌpunk ˈrock) a type of loud music popular in the late 1970s and 1980s
2. [countable] (
also punk rocker) someone who likes punk music and wears things that are typical of it, such as torn clothes, metal chains, and coloured hair:
punk hairstyles3. [countable] American English informal a young man who fights and breaks the law
4. [uncountable] American English a substance that burns without a flame that is used to light
fireworks etc
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